Hi all,
I hope I don't creep everyone out when I say I've been reading this thread for months now. It's where I've been getting my news about what comics are canon, what's coming up, etc. It has really been a delight to read. Reading the back and forth here even helped me get through a couple of nasty colds that left me home and unable to do much. And I love working my way through the timeline. I've been trying to drag it out, and as DIB said, there's been a lot of new MCU stuff coming out lately anyways, so I'm still only on May 30th, 2011 in the timeline. I did find three nitpicky details:
I think we have the events of May 25 and 26, 2008 wrong. Iron Man 2 (0:00:00 - 0:02:59) seems to take place on May 25, 2008, before "Just Off the Farm" (i.e. during the press conference). I'm also having trouble making sense of how Tony was able to have the press conference where he reveals his superhero identity, fly to Yemen and destroy a weapons cache on a ship there, go over surveillance tapes back home, go out again, and come back to talk to Nick all in one day. It seems more likely that "Who Made Who" and the Iron Man post-credits scene take place not on May 25th, but on a later date.
Secondly, I'm thinking Iron Man 2 (00:51:34 - 1:15:53) takes place on the same day (it's split into May 29th and 30th, 2011 right now), from after midnight until sundown. War Machine flies out after the fight with Iron Man and then lands at the Air Force base in the morning, Tony meets with Nick at the donut shop, they head back to Malibu, Tony works through his father's box of goodies all day, goes to the Stark Industries offices in the evening, etc.
The last thing I noticed is there's a quick flashback of Bruce being strapped in for his fateful experiment during The Incredible Hulk (0:38:25 – 0:38:43) that obviously takes place well before the start of the film. Probably in the early 2000s or the late 1990s. I don't know if we want to treat that as a memory that Bruce has in 2011 or as an event that occurs earlier.
Let me know what you think!
The last thing I noticed is there's a quick flashback of Bruce being strapped in for his fateful experiment during The Incredible Hulk (0:38:25 – 0:38:43) that obviously takes place well before the start of the film. Probably in the early 2000s or the late 1990s. I don't know if we want to treat that as a memory that Bruce has in 2011 or as an event that occurs earlier.
Also I thought yesterdays AoS episode was awesome and I cannot wait to see Cap2 next week. I'm watching it late so I can see it with the same friends I watch everything in the MCU with. Remember to use spoiler tags for the next week!
Cheers,
Daniel
