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After being unexpectedly stranded in 1982, Mack retreats to his childhood home to process the death of his parents, while Deke gets to work scouting a chart-topping group of new agents. With no idea if or when the team is coming back for them, time seems to finally be on their side… at least until the killer robots show up.
We are now over halfway through with the final season of AoS! What are your thoughts on this episode?
The number of ARs grows... 3 in AoS, 2 in Runaways, 4-5 in Endgame, 1 in Team Thor, One in Age of Ultron Episode 0, one for cosmic quest part two, a bunch of realitys for the games and a bunch of realitys for the non canon comics...
^Yes. But I wouldn't consider the video games and comics non canon version as alternate realities of the MCU, I would rather give that designation to the official canon material.
@Marvelus So does “branched realities” mean the present timeline is left unchanged because the timeline that were made with like the Malicks, etc. have branched off to new timelines? If so, then are the agents actions in vain? I know they are understanding that they are saving SHIELD and therefore Earth from the Chronicoms, but if nothing happens to the main MCU timeline, then it seem like they are risking death for nothing?
Maybe more will be said later and explained by the finale, but a branched reality doesn’t seem to threatening to their present lives.
^That is what I have been thinking about, and has me wondering, if they will create just branches in time, then what is it at stake? It cannot be rewritten because Deke didn't disappear, and if they could just rewrite history, then they could just go in the past and kill the agents when they were babies, but that wouldn't impact the future either, so in some form of thing, the Chronicoms know they cannot change time just like in the movies.
But Simmons and Fitz come from a future where Earth was colonized. Just remember, they were gone for an undefined amount of time to figure out how time travel works, and they didn't even find out. I HAVE to take Route A now, they saw the aftermath of the Chronicoms actions, time traveling or not, they KILLED their friends, Quake was killed, the world was conquered by the Chronicoms, and they just had to save them by time traveling in 2019, so they had to take them out of time and fight off the Chronicoms from doing whatever they wanted. So it is tricky but it will all get solved soon, but no. They are not rewriting timeline, they just cannot.
As for the episode itself, it was a filler episode, but it did have some important moments. It was also one of the more bloodier episode, even though I think they were going to for the old 80s horror effect. It was interesting that Sybil needed those robots at all. Coulson LMD’s action really did mess up her plans some or I’m sure she could have had a Chronicom so that for her. I’m guessing the rest of their hunters are already at a different time and place, not able to move back to where Deke and Mack are at. I wonder if that confirms Luke and Abel are dead/out of commission.
Some parts of the episode were slow. I’m glad it was just one episode like this and they were reunited at the end with some of the team. This was the episode that I thought would be Fitz centric and show us what he has been up to this whole time, but instead it was about Mack and Deke and what they had been up since they got left behind.
Im excited about what will happen next. It seems like Chroncioms are partnering with Hydra or at least Nathaniel and since he has Quake powers...I wonder if there will be an interest in bring more Inhumans or at least empower Hydra agents with such Inhuman powers, like Nathaniel was able to do for himself.
Episode 9 must be about Fitz
@Marvelus yeah that will be interesting to see. Since this is a Marvel TV show, then I know it is not going to effect any of the new MCU shows or films in Phase 4 because I just don’t see Feige letting that happen. Though it would be enjoyable to see the TV haters get confused about the history as they know it from just the films. Again, don’t see that impact.
With Endgame, they went back in time to collect the stones and bring back everyone, not to stop Thanos from snapping his fingers in the first place.
It is still a good season, just wondering about the outcome and purpose.
I know, but I am 100% sure they are not rewriting their previous timeline. How will they return to it? Who knows
Yeah that is what I’m not sure about and makes it all the interesting...How will this end? I just hope it’s a good ending. I’m sure it will have the “feels”, but also hope it doesn’t end cheap. I trust the writers and that they have this planned out well.
What do you think?
