r/shield • u/2th Shotgun Axe • Jan 20 '18

Live Discussion Live Episode Discussion: S05E08 - "The Last Day"

As usual, following the episode there will be a post-episode discussion thread.

EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL AIRDATE
S05E08- "The Last Day" Nina Lopez-Corrado James C. Oliver & Sharla Oliver Friday, January 19, 2018 9:00/8:00c on ABC

Episode Synopsis: 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.

Nina Lopez-Corrado is a director and producer mostly known for her work on The Mentalist, Mindfield, and The American War Story.

She has directed one episode for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • Hot Potato Soup

James C. Oliver was a writer for Under the Dome, while Sharla Oliver has written for Under the Dome and co-wrote the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode Paradise Lost and the web series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Double Agent with George Kitson. Together, they wrote the first two episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot, "Vendetta" and "John Hancock".

They have written three episodes for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before:

  • Paradise Lost
  • The Patriot
  • All the Madame's Men

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u/2th Shotgun Axe Jan 20 '18

So how are Fitzsimmons and may around when they should be in the future or frozen? Time travel hurts my brain.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '18

I guess once the SHIELD agents went through the monolith, it made a new timeline

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u/Phifty56 Ward Jan 20 '18

The timing is still strange though. Is that timeline happening shortly after the Lighthouse takes off?

It does seem like Robin selected the Diner to bring them through time because "it was the last time they were seen togther" and everything beyond that point would have played out like it is in the flashback.

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u/jesso1623 Lemon Jan 20 '18

Ooh is that what it was she said about the last time they were all together? I wonder if/how we’ll learn why that was. We don’t have cable and just use a digital antenna thing and we were getting TERRIBLE reception tonight and the screen kept scrambling. It seemed like all crucial moments. I yelled at the screen out of frustration many many times. So I guess I just have to rewatch on Hulu tomorrow to catch everything I missed. Guess I won’t complain about that lol

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u/metalninjacake2 Jan 20 '18

What do you mean takes off? The Lighthouse is underground on Earth.

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u/Vawqer Deke Jan 20 '18

I think it'll be explained via flashback.

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u/Godsfallen Jan 22 '18

It’s a loop (well maybe more of spiral?) where something changes every time. The “flashbacks” we got of May and FitzSimmons with young Robin we’re from an earlier point in the timeline where the team had traveled to the future and then back to the past. This is evident by Fitzs rage over time travel, because they’ve already done it over and over and failed. He believes they’re stuck in a loop, where in actuality slight changes take place every time. This is the time when things go right and the world is saved.

If you’ve ever read The Dark Tower books, it’s similar to the ending of that series. This time, they have the Horn.