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I just watched that scene with the calendar. I don't think it means anything. The set looks like an abandoned building. It also doesn't make sense that a blind guy would have a paper calendar.

Assuming Daredevil takes place in 2014, 20 years previous is 1994. I'm still watching, so I don't know how long Matt is with Stick. But I would assume young Matt meets Stick at the VERY least 6 months after his accident that blinds him. More likely a year or more. And another year or so for training. So I would put Matt's accident sometime in 1992-93.

I know it's an estimation but does that make sense?

EDIT: Also just doing some age math. Matt has to be at least 29 for the 20 years line to make sense. But it means he must have started law school late. By about 4 years by my count.
 
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In episode 5, at the 36:46 mark, while Claire is looking at the corrupt cop's burner phone and the text he'd gotten just after Matt knocked him out, the date is shown as August 22... however that date may be inaccurate as the time the text was received is shown as 3:44PM and given the scene happened outdoors at night, we know the time may not be accurate. If nothing else presents itself I'll use that date as a reference point.

Spoon_Wielder said:
I just watched that scene with the calendar. I don't think it means anything. The set looks like an abandoned building. It also doesn't make sense that a blind guy would have a paper calendar.

Assuming Daredevil takes place in 2014, 20 years previous is 1994. I'm still watching, so I don't know how long Matt is with Stick. But I would assume young Matt meets Stick at the VERY least 6 months after his accident that blinds him. More likely a year or more. And another year or so for training. So I would put Matt's accident sometime in 1992-93.

I know it's an estimation but does that make sense?

EDIT: Also just doing some age math. Matt has to be at least 29 for the 20 years line to make sense. But it means he must have started law school late. By about 4 years by my count.
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Could be. Its also possible he and Foggy spent a few years interning before taking the bar...? Admittedly that's unlikely.
 
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Bob_A_Mickelson said:
AOS season 2 begins in the spring of 2014. Talbot had been chasing them "all winter", implying it's just now spring. It's an election year (2014) but the election is implied to be a long time away.
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I'm going to start a huge marathon MCU watch through in the weeks leading up to AoU's release (I'm starting this week), so I'm going to rewatch Season 1 of AoS and see if its possible to condense some of the dates a bit more, as well as Season 2, but for the opposite reason: to find breaks between episodes where I can insert not only multi day or week stretches between episodes to stretch it out as much as possible... so far, from quick scans of the first 4-5 episodes, it seems it may be possible to insert spans between episode 2x02 and 2x03, and maybe between 2x03 and 2x04, and I believe it was mentioned 2x06 and either its previous or following episode could have a possible break between them (ie, no cliffhanger from one episode's end that's picked up immediately after in the next episode's beginning, but more self contained episodes). Season 1 (at least the first 15 episodes) needs to be squeezed into as small a span of time as possible, Season 2 needs to be stretched out to around a year's time, with spots to insert Daredevil (which appears to occur around August, 2014, least based on the first 6 episodes) and Age of Ultron in May (which may not require placing it in May, 2015, (and thus requiring AoS's crossover episodes to occur at the same time).

It's a bit of a mess right now. Once AoU releases and I see how AoS ties in with it, I can nail down a more concrete spreading of the AoS Season 2 episodes in relation to Daredevil, GotG, and AoU.
 
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So are we thinking accident in 1993, Stick in 1994? We would also have to place Fisk's childhood and Murdock in college, internship and first night out as a vigilante
 
T think it's better to list the flashbacks on the first page as "1993?" Or "Ca. 1993" rather than simply "1993" since that date does not appear to be definitive.

The break between AOS what they become and aftershocks can only be a couple days at most. I think there was a three day or 72 hour reference in their somewhere. Though I suspect that August is approximately the right time of year. Can anyone confirm?
 
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Bob_A_Mickelson said:
The break between AOS what they become and aftershocks can only be a couple days at most. I think there was a three day or 72 hour reference in their somewhere. Though I suspect that August is approximately the right time of year. Can anyone confirm?
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I can't think of a time when AoS put an exact month or time in, so cannot be confirmed, you can only estimate
 
There have been a few dates. I'm asking if anyone else remembers the 72 hour reference. If it exists then we need to find another place for daredevil to fit in.
 
Bob_A_Mickelson said:
There have been a few dates. I'm asking if anyone else remembers the 72 hour reference. If it exists then we need to find another place for daredevil to fit in.
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I don't think the dates are too important, just because they don't interfere with each other, I would have personally put Daredevil at that point or before season 2 started.

The hardest part to place will be his college life. Internships last around a year and college would have come before that so we are looking at 2013 being in college, they may have started 7 years before that though as that is how long you are in college for to be a lawyer. So they would have started as early as 2006.
I would place them meeting at college just before Iron Man 1 along side the russians being in prison. The time they were drunk was the night before they finished so just before Agents of Shield starts? And perhaps the end of the internship before or just after AoS season 2 starts? The Fisk flashbacks in the 70's
 
There's a scene in Daredevil that directly shows the Battle of New York newspaper. I don't remember if it shows the date, but I imagine that will help.
 
In Episode 7, Matt mentions Foggy will be ready to pitch by mid-season (in reference to him recovering from the glass injury in his side from the explosions). Baseball regular season lasts from early April to early October, so mid season would be around July. With the date seen on the phone implying the show occurs in mid to late August, that makes the reference about a month late, but still somewhat viable in terms of "late mid season", I suppose. Given its a joke, too, I wouldn't put too much stock in that nailing down timeline references.

Bob_A_Mickelson said:
T think it's better to list the flashbacks on the first page as "1993?" Or "Ca. 1993" rather than simply "1993" since that date does not appear to be definitive.
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Eh, its definitive enough. We know its been a couple years since the Chitauri invasion, so 2014. We know its been around 21 years since Matt's dad's death and when he began training with Stick, and 20 years since Stick left. So placing the flashbacks in 1993 and 1994 is definitive enough.

Admittedly the flashbacks to Fisk's childhood years in the 1970's is tougher to nail down. In Episode 8, at the 12:28 mark, Fisk's mom is writing out bills for past due notices, and I was trying to make out dates on the bill or checks but didn't notice any. If anyone can make anything out in those scenes let me know.

The break between AOS what they become and aftershocks can only be a couple days at most. I think there was a three day or 72 hour reference in their somewhere. Though I suspect that August is approximately the right time of year. Can anyone confirm?
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I don't think it was ever mentioned specifically, only implied.
 
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wyokid said:
There's a scene in Daredevil that directly shows the Battle of New York newspaper. I don't remember if it shows the date, but I imagine that will help.
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I believe you're referring to the first scene (and later scenes, but the first scene seems most visible) that occurs in Urich's office, you can see a bunch of newspapers framed, obviously with front page articles by Urich. And the one in the middle, directly behind his desk, references the Battle of New York/alien invasion. There's no visible date on it (can't even see any date, let along one too small to make out, but it is in the background so I doubt even the highest resolution screen grab would reveal anything new.
 
crafty100 said:
So are we thinking accident in 1993, Stick in 1994? We would also have to place Fisk's childhood and Murdock in college, internship and first night out as a vigilante
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I haven't gotten to those later episodes yet, just finished Ep 7. I'll try to finish it by tomorrow and get everything placed by tomorrow night.

But yeah, I think based on the dialogue between Matt and Stick confirming Stick left him 20 years ago, that places that one scene (him training, giving Stick the bracelet made out of ice cream cone wrapper, Stick leaving) happens in 1994 (20 years before 2014).

And it seems very likely that Matt was blinded about a year before, in 1993. His father died awhile later, and he was in the orphanage probably a few weeks or months before they hired Stick to help him/train him. This all probably occurs in 1993, maybe into early 1994, but it's probably safe to place it all in 1993. The Stick leaving scene is definitely 1994, the others probably 1993.

I'll figure out the other stuff you mentioned as I get to it. May have to just place it generally with "????" for the year if it can't be narrowed down any. We'll see.
 
This is a minor point but did anyone catch the possible age discrepancy for Absorbing Man from DD E2 and AOS S2 E1? It's cool they added him to both, but the age thing does bother a little.
 
fuzzyfoot said:
This is a minor point but did anyone catch the possible age discrepancy for Absorbing Man from DD E2 and AOS S2 E1? It's cool they added him to both, but the age thing does bother a little.
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No real age discrepancy. It's been said Creel was a young, 18 year old up and coming fighter when Jack Murdock beat him. Assuming that happened 21 years prior, that makes the Creel seen in AoS around 38-39 years old (since the first half of the season apparently occurs in 2014). That's completely believable. Hell, perhaps it was Jack beating him that led to Creel washing out as a boxer and becoming a criminal.
 
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DIrishB said:
I believe you're referring to the first scene (and later scenes, but the first scene seems most visible) that occurs in Urich's office, you can see a bunch of newspapers framed, obviously with front page articles by Urich. And the one in the middle, directly behind his desk, references the Battle of New York/alien invasion. There's no visible date on it (can't even see any date, let along one too small to make out, but it is in the background so I doubt even the highest resolution screen grab would reveal anything new.
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Nah. Later episode Urich holds it and it's the main focus of the camera.
 
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