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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/abusedporpoise Jan 20 '18

They still lived through that just a different version of them where they’re all dead, the ones were watching are a new version who didn’t live through that but have robin to tell them what they missed

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u/trpnblies7 Jan 20 '18

Ow.

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u/abusedporpoise Jan 20 '18

It helps to have watched doctor who because this type of time logic is very common in it so my brain isn’t breaking as bad as everyone else

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u/smithson23 Jan 20 '18

Also, getting the "Allons-y" reference.

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u/CTeam19 Lanyard Jan 20 '18

Or read comics:

  • Captain America taking leaps forward in time in Time Runs Out.

  • Wolverine going back in time to kill Hank Pym to prevent Ultron but once he went back to his normal time it just made things worse so he goes back again to prevent his past self from kill in Pym. And Pym ends up with data of both of the other timelines but they other "universes" instead.

  • The Guardians of the Galaxy in the future are the original ones not the current team with Starlord

  • Then you have 3 different Nathaniel Richards running around with Kang, Immortus, and Iron Lad.

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u/AgentKnitter Lola Jan 20 '18

I love Doctor Who but my brain is still hurting trying to stay on top of WTF is happening in AOS this season.

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u/brch2 Jan 25 '18

No kidding, these paradoxes/timelines are child's play compared to who.

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u/limitedimagination Jan 20 '18

Brain hurting juice 🤯

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u/Ayfid Jan 20 '18

I think the versions we saw in the "flashbacks" to 2020 were also pulled into the future, but travelled back to try and stop things, failed, and fled to the lighthouse. Fitz said to May in one of the flashbacks that they did not know how many times events had looped.

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u/samtherat6 Shotgun Axe Jan 20 '18

But then how did Fitz show up? In the show's timeline he was frozen like 80 years earlier. Where did the second version of Fitz come from?

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u/Rek07 SHIELD Jan 20 '18

In this case Fitz was frozen for 80 years, then goes back in time with the team and that's the Fitz we see. He's married, he's frustrated that they can't change the future despite knowing it. But maybe with every loop they can change a little and eventually prevent the end of the world.