Board Thread:Television/@comment-24416813-20140115063611/@comment-1894786-20180110002236

KalKent wrote: It seems that they were pretty confident that they were going to be renewed for a second season, since while it did end on a pretty big cliffhanger with some still unanswered questions, it did feel like this season wasn't as standalone as some other Marvel shows in terms of a complete story. Still, looking forward to how this will be resolved eventually, even if we have to wait atleast another 10 months for it, though this time with more episodes than usual to look forward to.

EDIT: Also SPOILERS in regards to the last thing one sees in the season finale. The newspaper that says "Earthquake Watch: Is LA Next?", is an obvious foreshadowing to the apparent destruction of LA as shown on Victor's time machine. But on the MCU-wiki, it is apparently a reference to the earthquake that happened in NYC at the beginning of 'The Defenders'. While it sounds like a bit of a reach to me, if true, it does bring into question when exactly both that and 'Runaways' take place. I heard somewhere that the latter apparently takes place in 2018, but I can't remember where I saw it or why that would be the case. And if it was intentional, it makes it clear that even the producers and writers were aware of how similar the Pride's plot was to the Hand's, but that bring in the question if they can even reference a show that's on a (competing) streaming service. Everyone's focusing on it as a reference to The Defenders (which would place Runaways in around August-September 2016, since Defenders is in June, and the Runaways are clearly in school), but isn't it also possible that it's a reference to Quake causing... Well, quakes, against the Watchdogs for six months across the country, ending up in Los Angeles very soon after? And Quake's rampage is in the second half of 2016, which would place Runaways in the beginning of 2017 at the latest.

But as you said, there was set dressing in Runaways that seemingly confirms a 2018 date, which I don't believe is possible at all.