So, The Punisher series is pretty well distanced from the Defender's universe. In fact I remember reading that the showrunner of The Punisher was told that Frank couldn't interact with any of the other Defenders (
https://comicbook.com/marvel/2017/11/14/punisher-season-1-marvel-cameos-defenders/) and I'm wondering if that is because they already had a timeline laid out and planned. The reason I bring this up is because I'm curious as to whether the Netflix stuff NEEDS to be in the order of release. Like, I have a theory that maybe Punisher happens during like a Defenders break. Keep in mind that this theory does contradict some evidence in the sheet, but I explain why those things can be disregarded.
What if......
Daredevil 2/ Luke Cage (Late 2015)
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Punisher (November 2016)
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Iron Fist (January 2017)
^ This is probably throwing some people off, but hear me out. First thing, I hate that cell phone date, it's up for like a second and continues the Netflix tradition of unreliable phone dates (Luke Cage and Daredevil have been equally unreliable.) . Second thing, the festival is CLEARLY Chinese New Year, I don't even know how this is debated, but that is pretty clear if you look up the customs of Chinese festivals. Third, in Season One of Iron Fist they tell us 60,543 times that Danny has been gone for Fifteen years. In the first Episode of Iron Fist 2, he says "I missed the LAST fifteen years of culture" insinuating to me that Iron Fist and Iron Fist 2 go down on the same year just on different sides of it.
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Defenders (March 2017)
^ I know. The laptop date. But I think the best way to figure out a timeline is to not only use in-universe facts but also real world facts as well. And this is why I find that date to be unreliable. Because the Defenders began filming on October 31st, 2016, which means it is pretty damn possible that what we are seeing on the computer is actually just the date that that scene was filmed. And there are things you can use to argue that Defenders happens with Punisher, but there is nothing that I have seen that can't be, very easily, debunked.
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Jessica Jones 2 (Pretty soon after Defenders, like maybe a couple of weeks depending on where Defenders goes. So if Defenders is early March, JJ2 is late March 2017)
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Luke Cage 2 (August/September 2017)
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Daredevil 3 (October? 2017 [They say the temperature has started getting colder...]
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Punisher 2 (November? 2017 [I mean they say that it has been a year since last season, but that can be a little more or a little less, depending on other things]
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Jessica Jones 3/ Iron Fist 2 (Tail end 2017, Early 2018)
^ Few things that stick out
*The Fifteen years thing stated earlier
*In IF2 Misty says something about 'Next year's Christmas card' so it's close to Christmas, but after Christmas.
*There are two points of argument regarding JJ3 the Mother's day line and the mention of it being a year. I think the Mother's day line is LESS likely to be wrong and it being a year later is just a round up from like nine months. March to December is about nineish months and December to May on paper is about six months (Also a pretty close round)
*I need a memory refresh, but I know Danny Rand's sabbatical is mentioned, does that have to be when he left with Ward, isn't he gone from Rand for like the entirety of that Season?
So those quick things being said, I think there could be a bit of an overlap with JJ3 and IF2 with Iron Fist stretching out a bit more
Thanks for reading guys, this has just been the latest way I've been looking at it while trying to figure out this side of the timeline.
