First, let me say, that if I had any expectations of what this season was going it be, it went off the rails about 10 minutes in.
The good thing about being completely spoiler free. No expectations at all. Though I have to admit that I was kinda bummed that they killed Aladdin Virgil off so quickly.They had to red shirt him. He probably knew everything the team needed to know. He knew everything from everybody's names, to when and where they'd appear. He may even have known what Fitz was up to and why the team was there. And he was the last one to know.
And yeah, I have no problem watching movie trailers, but enjoy keeping myself in the dark on what's going to go on in AoS. Interestingly, I did go back to watch the trailers, and the 17-minute preview has poofed. No place to be found...
How long has it been since, say, the team entered the Framework in S4? A few weeks? That's a lot to process in that time...
The monolith sucked the team up on old Earth, someplace on the missing part of the planet. That missing part is (it looks like) someplace between where the Earth was, and the moon. So the monolith had to move them as well, otherwise they'd have reappeared in space on the now non-existant surface of earth.
On the other hand, if the area the team reappeared in was in the exact same place they got sucked from 90+ years before, then you could argue they reappeared in the same place relative to where they started the trip. Like in
The Time Machine. (The Rod Taylor version.)
Not to get picky, but a potential future is an alternate reality. It would be a lot less messy than real time travel. I mean, who's to say that this isn't the work of Ghostrider. Even he (or his boss) has a vested interest in keeping Earth intact...
Air (and even liquid) can be displaced, but having a solid appear within another solid would be destruction down to an atomic level and would have destroyed the little piece of Earth they're on and probably those around it. (The pipe still existed, May had to remove it, but what happened to that part of May's leg where the pipe was? They did the same thing with Gordon...) Of course, it's like sound in space, most everyone gives it a pass.
And so long as I'm at it, how the heck do they still have gravity? If Earth has been broken apart, then there isn't the mass for an earth-like gravity...
You don't think the machines they were on had some sort of electro-stimulation of the muscles to keep them in tone and prevent blood clots? Since Aida's programming was to make sure the humans were safe, she had to have designed something like that in... (You know, I kinda find it creepy that I'm trying to reason what a fictional character in a television show would do...)
You raise an interesting point. Technically, Fitz could *still* step out of a limo. If Fitz somehow figured out someone would find the servers, he could have programmed a Fitz into the Framework.
Which might also bring up the question of how Deke found the servers. Is the "spaceship" they're on include Aida's/Radcliff's evil laboratory?
Well, of course. The writers of AoS love leading you down the wrong path.
But if you look at the different pieces of Earth around, they're still pretty close together. Even the schoolbus was around. Explosions will send things flying apart off into space away from the explosion. Just breaking the planet apart will cause the pieces to drift away...
It would be criminal not to show what Fitz is going through. The team is gone, the playground is gone, even Talbot is out of the picture. Maybe he can contact a Koenig...
It wasn't really Marvel or Disney, it was ABC. Now, Iger could have told ABC that they're going to do this, but considering the hype Infinity War is getting, I wouldn't doubt ABC wanted a piece of it...
Given Mack and his numerous phobias (many of which are well justified) and what he's been through in the past few weeks, I can completely understand where he's coming from...