[OOC] Timeline

[dont_go_smooth]

SPAMMING YOUR FL la la la. This is a super vague and not at all complete timeline, and it hasn't been checked with anyone else in my cast so it may not line up with theirs just yet. Some of the dates are direct canon; others are assumptions, estimations, or flat out lies.

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[master_of_mon]

....randomly i just woke up and scrolled REALLY FAST down my flist and thought that was an icon of live ackshun yuusuke. i-its the green shirt.

[dont_go_smooth]

... hahaha whut XD

[dont_go_smooth]

This is a REMINDER TO ME to double-check the eight months thing. As Simon helpfully pointed out, Mal has a line in Serenity about River being "on the boat for eight months" without Simon telling him that she could flip out and kill people if she wanted to. So ... actually, there should be eight months between the two Serenities whoops.

HOWEVER. There is a conundrum in this! I have set a semi-canon date of U-Day being September 20th. (It's the initial air date for "Train Job" and it's the date on the wiki, I think? Need to double-check.) However, Simon's semi-canon birthdate is April 16th, which is ... a little less than seven months after September 20th. That's not going to be enough time to fit six episodes, the graphic novel, AND a presumed one-two month gap between "Objects in Space" and the BDM. One date or the other is going to have to change. (I have no preferences as to which. Just need to ask Simon what she wants to do with it.)

[sisterskeeper]

I just realised that and wanted to know "can we change his birthday, would anyone notice?"

If we shift the beginning of the series to ...about early September of 2517, that means that the show runs from September 2517 to May 2518 which is where the movie airs. I shift Simon's birthday back to about ... November 2517, which then gives us six months to get six episodes, the graphic novel and the movie out of the way.

I remain annoyed that the visual companion hints that we could have found out Simon's birthday from the profile that the Operative downloads about him but noooooooooo. D:

[dont_go_smooth]

Birthdays are fluid anyway! We can assume all sorts of things for while it wasn't celebrated this year.

... that works for me. I still need to sit down with the episodes and hash out how long it is between each one (I know for instance that it's only been a week or two between "Ariel" and "War Stories" 'cause of the dialogue), but the shifted timeline looks better to me.

Damn. D: Well -- maybe it's in a frame somewhere? I'm gonna end up going back and stepping through that whole sequence now.

[sisterskeeper]

The thing is, it was celebrated ... in April. F-fail. But because Simon is experienced in the art of retconning, we can just ... assume it was always that way what do you mean it happened another way, are you on drugs? As for why nothing happened for it, Simon just pretended that nothing happened and because he and Kaylee weren't talking at that point, it got forgotten. A+.

Well, we know that the graphic novel took place in or around late-April/early-May 2518 because the last panel is the Operative being assigned the task of looking for River and Simon (apparently to execute them, lolz) and then the movie begins with him researching just how they did it and I can't really see him being so unorganised as to be assigned a task and then not begin researching it immediately.

I think the scene got reedited because the Operative doesn't call up Simon's profile in the final release. This makes me sad as I want it. D: COME ON JOSS, GIVE US DATES.

[using_wiles]

I just noticed; you've got Mal being born sixty-eight years after the show starts.