Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20151029033607/@comment-1895174-20170301014055

Ben 1,000,911 wrote: Back to SHIELD, I hate to be that guy, but why do the events start with Coulson never joining SHIELD? It could've been something else. Because "What if I never joined S.H.I.E.L.D.?" is Coulson's regret. Whether or not that's the starting point depends on how Aida fixed everyone's regrets. The Framework tries to take a number of "What If?" scenarios and fit them all into one narrative. Also did we ever learn why he joined in the first place? Because why wouldn't he join SHIELD naturally? S.H.I.E.L.D. found him after he uncovered some of the organization's secret activities while studying history in college. He wouldn't join S.H.I.E.L.D. naturally in the Framework's timeline because the Framework's programming won't let him. And if he didn't, then yeah the Battle of NY wouldn't have happened, but I guess Hydra still could've taken care of the Avengers if they were perfectly successful. It's more that the battle of New York would've happened differently and Hydra wouldn't have any Avengers to worry about stopping them. Furthermore, is there anything to suggest that the Framework is a What If? style timeline? They could have just changed things without getting into the specifics of how. Or they'll just never tell us. The first episode when it comes back from the hiatus is literally titled "What If..." This Framework seems a lot like House of M to me: everyone wants the perfect life, but since some people's lives would contradict each other if they were both perfect, the Framework has made its own overall perfect world that kinda works for most people. It can be two things.