Was she the actress that was also on Supergirl?
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Agents of SHIELD: Season 6
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Yes, Venskus played Agent Vasquez of the DEO before becoming Agent Piper of SHIELD. They were essentially the exact same character. There was even a time when, in the span of just over two weeks, both characters returned to their shows after a long absence, and both in bottle episodes involving the agencies' bases being in lockdown due to disguised infiltrators (SG: "The Martian Chronicles" and AoS: "Self Control"). It was as if Vasquez/Piper were a multiversal constant transcending the DC/Marvel divide.
I wonder if she had a Walking Dead episode at the same time.
Good to see her back (though I'd also like to see her pop up again in SG)
I'm curious, as someone who dropped the show when all the main characters became pretty much literally Nazi's, did this show ever get back to the main MCU continuity after Season 6 apparently created an alternate future because the writers were too lazy to incorporate Infinity War/Endgame? Or is the whole show just declared completely out of continuity (as opposed to being mostly out of continuity by virtue of it effecting nothing else in the MCU, like it started out as)?
They were pretty much in sync through the season five finale (the last quarter of that season has references to Thanos coming soon and it is implied that the events of Infinity War are occurring as Coulson's team deals with Talbot). After that, the show and movies diverged (in real life, not many people knew the five year jump in Endgame was going to be permanent - the assumption was time travel would be used to negate those five years, and Marvel Studios made sure the information wasn't going to leak). As for in-universe explanation, one was never given.
Season six begins a year after the end of season five and when The Snap/Blip should have happened. But there is no mention of it and doesn't appear to have happened.
Right now, I consider seasons 6 and 7 to be apocryphal, unless season 7 does something to bring the story back in sync.
Rather, we didn't know there was going to be a five-year time jump. It was kept secret until Endgame came out. The assumption, if anything, was that the problem would be resolved sooner after the events of Infinity War, and that if any time travel were involved, it would just be the few weeks or months that we expected to elapse between the two movies.
I think if you squint a little, it can be interpreted as happening in an early post-Snap world where people are trying to go about their lives as if nothing has changed and the long-term despair and societal breakdown haven't started to set in yet. The team just got lucky in that all of them were among the survivors, much as all the original Avengers "coincidentally" happened to survive unsnapped. After all, a lot of the season took place in space, and both the space and Earth portions tended to be fairly narrow in focus due to the tight budget, so we didn't really see a lot of the larger world/universe.
As I recall, the five-year jump was a pretty common meme in the rumor mill, enough so that I'd heard about it even as someone who doesn't go spoiler-hunting as a rule (IIRC, casting was the smoking gun, with Tony's daughter and/or the older version of Scott's daughter being known to exist fairly early on). I'd hope that the AOS team was at least as plugged-in as internet randos (though the idea that they have to do their coordination with the movies via public leaks would be disappointing, though unsurprising). The bigger question was, as Caretaker says, if that would be part of the status quo after the movie ends, or if the film would undo the defeat at the end of IW entirely.
As for how season 6 fits into the MCU, until something more solid comes along, I prefer to bump the end of season 5 backwards in the timeline, and have season 6 take place pre-Infinity War. The references at the end of season 5 were already fairly vague and required some interpretation to tie them directly to the film, they can just as easily be reinterpreted to refer to things that took place in earlier movies.
I missed those rumors. It came as a huge surprise to me in the theater.
That never happened.
Thanks for saying that. I almost responded but decided that it wasn't worth it anymore.
And here we go...
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