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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18




TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR COULSON TO SAVE THE WORLD, ON ABC'S 'MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.'

"The Last Day" - Coulson and the team discover that the most unexpected person from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s past may hold the key to stopping Earth's destruction, on "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," FRIDAY, JAN. 19 (9:00-10:01 p.m. EST), on The ABC Television Network, streaming and on demand.

"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stars Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, Ming-Na Wen as Agent Melinda May, Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson, Iain De Caestecker as Agent Leo Fitz, Elizabeth Henstridge as Agent Jemma Simmons, Henry Simmons as Agent Alphonso "Mack" MacKenzie and Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Elena "Yo-Yo" Rodriguez.

Guest starring are Jeff Ward as Deke, Dominic Rains as Kasius, Florence Faivre as Sinara, Joel Stoffer as Enoch, Coy Stewart as Flint, Michael McGrady as Samuel Voss, Tunisha Hubbard as Ava, Willow Hale as Robin Hinton, Ava Kolker as Robin (age 12), Lexy Kolker as Robin (age 7), Jamal Akakpo as comms agent, Michele Tobin as Gretchen and Dusty Sorg as Mouse.

"The Last Day" was written by James C. Oliver and Sharla Oliver and directed by Nina Lopez-Corrado.

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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

I normally like time travel shows and movies, but I'm not enjoying this one.
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

I (for)see a couple of things in the future - a) looks like the Zephyr gets unearthed and flies again and b) my guess is they bring Flint back to the past to prevent the planetary break-up w his power.
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

I may be in the minority, but I'm really enjoying this storyline.
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

I'm with Bando.
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

I'm always in for the sci-fi stuff. I like it more than the superhero/spy elements.

Tons of paradoxes in this episode. I'm not even going to try to think about it too hard, it will give me a headache.
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

I'm enjoying this season, the killer Kree woman is the bomb
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

Originally Posted by Eric F
Tons of paradoxes in this episode.
Any examples?
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

That Yo-Yo scene was cool. I like this story line, but I'm about ready for them to get back to their own time.
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

Originally Posted by Bandoman
I may be in the minority, but I'm really enjoying this storyline.
Maybe not because I'm enjoying this as well. 1000% better than that Ghost Rider waste of time. I came close to dropping the show during that period.

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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

I was a little confused with the "flashbacks" with the team and young Robin. I'm guessing that they had yet to happen since May didn't recall any of that from old Robin. Plus they were dated in 2018 and the Shield team vanished earlier than that.
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As I'm understanding it, the Shield team was taken from 2018 after the events in 2022 had already happened.
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

In the original timeline the team never went to the future. The flashbacks are from the original timeline. Guessing they all died or else have an older double running around.
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

Originally Posted by hdnmickey
Maybe not because I'm enjoying this as well. 1000% better than that Ghost Rider waste of time. I cam close to dropping the show during that period.
Agreed. This is awesome. Love time travel stuff.
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In the original timeline the team never went to the future. The flashbacks are from the original timeline. Guessing they all died or else have an older double running around.
No, I thought the flashbacks were after they were sent back so they could prevent this future from happening. That's why Robin had such strong memories of May, as she ends up raising her after her mom dies. The next few weeks should fill in more of this, and give them a way to change things to prevent the Earth from being quaked apart.
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Originally Posted by Jason
The next few weeks should fill in more of this, and give them a way to change things to prevent the Earth from being quaked apart.
We will definitely have this better explained in the next few episodes (how could they not?). But till then I think it's clear nobody has been sent back yet. I found it very interesting this new inhuman kid is involved somehow.
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

They most likely will bring this Flint kid back with them to patch together the cracked Earth.
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They most likely will bring this Flint kid back with them to patch together the cracked Earth.
Or maybe he is the one that destroys it.
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

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No, I thought the flashbacks were after they were sent back so they could prevent this future from happening. That's why Robin had such strong memories of May, as she ends up raising her after her mom dies. The next few weeks should fill in more of this, and give them a way to change things to prevent the Earth from being quaked apart.
No. The flashbacks are original timeline. In the flashbacks the Earth has been destroyed and the Kree are already there. In the flashbacks Fitz is trying to make the time machine. The little girl is telling May about stuff that happens in the future but May doesn't know what she's talking about because they never went to the future(yet).
Also Fitz mentions a "she" or "her" who is dead. Gemma isn't in the flashbacks. He's probably motivated to build the time machine to save her also.
The drawing of the Zephyr flinging among earth debris probably hasn't happened yet in either timeline.

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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

If they made any mistake in doing this time travel arc, it was taking the team at the diner before a good chunk of scenes they were going to show play out in the original timeline. Took me a bit to figure out how they were spinning this as well. But once you realize they took the team before "destroyer' of words stuff happened, but they are showing the characters lives leading up to the event anyway, if starts to get easier to follow.
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Originally Posted by hdnmickey
If they made any mistake in doing this time travel arc, it was taking the team at the diner before a good chunk of scenes they were going to show play out in the original timeline. Took me a bit to figure out how they were spinning this as well. But once you realize they took the team before "destroyer' of words stuff happened, but they are showing the characters lives leading up to the event anyway, if starts to get easier to follow.
Exactly. Originally they ate their pie and walked out of the diner, events progressed to whatever destroyed earth. They lived the rest of their lives in the lighthouse under Kree rule like everybody else. This is what the flashbacks show. The girl Robin was having visions of them doing things in the future. Everybody thought she was wacky because they never did them. During this time May raised the girl while Fitz was trying to figure out time travel. Later these visions became the prophecy.

At some point, after 75 years go by, somebody got the time travel to work. This rebel underground brings everybody but Fitz to the future because he was never mentioned in her visions. So the team has no memory of these flashbacks because they hadn't happened yet for them in the past.

The girl, Robin, was seeing two different versions of the future, one with and one without time travel. Once the team went to the future the future without time travel ceased to exist. Now she had a vision in 2018 of Fitz also being in the future. This is because the team being taken to the future is what caused Fitz to go into after them.
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

Yeah, you just have to realize that taking them from the diner to the future would have prevented the destruction of the planet (because Quake was gone) so it can't be linear.

I really like that Fitz took "the long way" too - most stories would have sent him through a different portal or something. That said, he REALLY mucks it up because he froze himself to meet them in the future but the planet was still destroyed while he was frozen so who did that if Daisy was in the future and oh no I've gone crosseyed.

Really enjoying this plot too!
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

Multiple timeline plots shouldn't be analyzed anymore than necessary.



The Fitz thing makes sense because he chose go ice cube in the timeline where the rest of the team was already taken. Probably a part of the plot that will get more attention as they wrap it all up to fan satisfaction.
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Multiple timeline plots shouldn't be analyzed anymore than necessary.



The Fitz thing makes sense because he chose go ice cube in the timeline where the rest of the team was already taken. Probably a part of the plot that will get more attention as they wrap it all up to fan satisfaction.
Right, but he woke up in a world where the planet had been destroyed. He didn't take a portal into a new timeline - he basically just stood still in his current timeline and caught up with the team...who couldn't have destroyed the world.

I love this stuff.
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Re: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (S5E08) -- "The Last Day" -- 1/19/18

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He didn't take a portal into a new timeline - he basically just stood still in his current timeline and caught up with the team...who couldn't have destroyed the world.

I love this stuff.
I might also be cross-eyed, but didn't Enoch explain that by the lighthouse location having some kind of connection to it all?

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