James Gunn made a big point about the fact that Groot wasn't a teenager in the post credit scene, but a preteen.
I know; I was saying that if Groot is a tween in GotG Vol. 2's ending, then it's more likely to take place closer to Infinity War, rather than GotG Vol. 2 (unless his species has a long tween/teen period).
That actually works, far as I can tell, even for AoS.
Anyone notice anything glaring in that approach that doesn't align with the TV series?
That's mostly the new timeline I've been thinking about, but there are a few issues I can think of, for the movies at least:
Apart from the timespan between The Avengers and Iron Man 3 being 2 years rather than 6 months (though it's fine since it wasn't stated in the film), and contradicting Talbot that the Chitauri invasion was in 2012:
-If Doctor Strange begins in 2016 and Civil War takes place in spring/summer 2017, then it may cause issue with the mention of Strange in WHiH prior to CW coming out. I can accept that they may have interviewed him before the accident and had the footage of the interview set to air several weeks after the fact, but I'm not really sure that they'd have the footage for that long before airing it a year and a few months later.
-In Civil War, Zemo says he'd been planning his revenge for a year, though you can make a case for him grieving for a year, then starting his revenge for a year after that.
But also in CW, Peter Parker says he's had his powers for 6 months, implying he's had them since early that year or late the previous year, which fits with what we have now. But he is also alluded to at the end of Ant-Man ("We've got a guy who jumps, we've got a guy who swings, we've got a guy who crawls up the walls...")
If Ant-Man takes place 2 years prior, then the reference might not work, since the context for it was that Falcon was looking for Ant-Man, meaning either he'd take more than a year to start looking for him, or it took a year for the information to get to Luis; or that Luis just came up with random powers as examples, which coincidentally happened to match up with Spider-Man whose origins are a year later.
That's all I can think of for now.
Finally, where does the school year start in August?
I live in Canada, and school starts here from mid- to late- August. I don't know if it does in New York.