Smallville - Timeline

[selfishmisery]

A prop showed this occurred on May 14, 2011

 

[Rman]

I've been in the middle of a rewatch using this timeline, and I'm curious what the reasoning is for Season 7's placements. I know there's some stretching that needs to be done since 6x22 and 7x01 happen back to back and future episodes treat 7x01 as being closer to Fall 2007. However, I don't see anything that specifically says the season has to begin in August and 7x09 is a Christmas theme episode and it's currently placed as being October.

Edit: So, I've noticed in 7x11 there's a November 6th, 2007 date briefly seen on a phone and I'm assuming the earlier placements are based around this date. However, it seems to have just been when the scene was filmed and not intended to be when it's set. Given 7x09 is clearly December 2007.

 

[selfishmisery]

I wasted an hour of my life trying to create a graph based on Arrowverse Wiki's reasoning for a local 52/53-Earths per multiverse in regards to Smallville's Earth-number issue - it doesn't work. It goes beyond convoluted into overthinking it completely.

Since the easiest explanations tend to be the most accurate:

• Smallville's "Earth-2" is Earth-167A - (alternate timeline that branched from 1989-ownards; created by the Krypton mirror device)
• The Monitors are just "The Weaponers of Qward" under a different alias.
• The Bleed can be turned into anti-matter, as we clearly saw in Superman & Lois' 2nd season with the under-explained portals.
• Earth-9, Earth-13 and Earth-37 are simply just restored by Mar Novu offscreen, unbeknownst to Earth-167's Justice League. (As long as the number of living Earths outnumber the dead ones, Novu can handle it.)

I think DC, per usual, isn't concerned with canonizing these explanations because it feels like extra homework for the casual fan. Like, from my understanding, the angel "Manny" potentially was Neron from Legends of Tomorrow's 4th season when possessing Amenadiel as a host offscreen. I can come up with evidence to support that hypothesis but it's never going to be flat-out confirmed. Because it doesn't matter anymore, that show's been gone for a decade. With a lot of these unfinished stories, you're expected to fill in the blanks on your own.

Wiki's whole deal with like "Well maybe it's that or maybe not, who knows?" (like the FOUR different pages for Arrowverse's mentions of Riddler) is creating more unfulfilling speculation than necessary. The Arrowverse, as a narrative, is completed.