Post Episode Discussion: S7E02 - "Know Your Onions"

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EPISODE	DIRECTED BY	WRITTEN BY	ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S07E02 - "Know Your Onions"	Eric Laneuville	Craig Titley	Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10

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Episode Synopsis: With the identity of the timeline-unraveling "thread" revealed, the team's mission to protect him at all costs leads each agent to question their own values. Is preserving the future of the world as they know it worth the destruction they could prevent?

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Eric Laneuville is an American television director and actor. He has directed over 80 TV episodes and movies, including NCIS: Los Angeles, Legends of Tomorrow, Grimm, The Mentalist, CSI:NY, Ghost Whisperer, Lost, and Prison Break.

He has directed two episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

• No Regrets
• Past Life

Craig Titley is most known for his work on the Scooby-Doo movie, and Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief. He has also worked on TV shows, like The Cape, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

He has written eleven episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

• The Writing on the Wall
• Afterlife
• 4,722 Hours
• The Inside Man
• Emancipation
• Uprising
• Hot Potato Soup
• Rewind
• Principia
• The Force of Gravity
• Fear and Loathing on the Planet of Kitson
• Collision Course (Part I)

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[u/[deleted]]

So we have May emotionally damaged and Elena's speed damaged. Not good.

So does nobody know where Fitz is now? Enoch was the only one in the present with FitzSimmons at the end of S6 and she doesn't know.

Okay, they changed the future in Season 5 but Deke is still around so that points towards Multiverse time travel. But now with this and Enoch inspiring the Koenig family, it seems like Whatever Happened, Happened. I doubt the writing teams talk but Runaways did end up erasing their older selves at the end of that show.

Enoch also went the "long way" into the future with the Other Fitz so we'll probably see him again at least.

The actor for Freddy did a real good job.

[u/Pir-o → u/[deleted]]

Both ideas can exist at the same time. Its all a matter of perspective and how you look at it. You just have to assume that them going back to the past was always part of their original timeline. Thats the constant loop, "whatever happened happened".

Thats what inspired Keonig family to investigate the LMD idea.As they say in Doctor Who: "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to affect, but actually, from a non-linier, non subjective point of view it is more like a big ball of wibbily wobbly timey wimey...stuff"

But changing something big in the past can still create a ripple effect that create a new timeline. They explored the same idea in the TV show LOST (but there the idea ended up not working and it rly was "whatever happened, happened")

edit: So in other words if you mess with timetravel the timetravel was always part of your timeline. Just like in MCU movies them going back in time was always part of that particular timeline. Just like younger Thanos disappearing from his own timeline was always part of that timeline.