Timeline Fun: 8x18 and 8x19

[hells_half_acre]

I decided to timeline the previous two episodes of SPN this evening... and while I don't actually have any dates for them, I did discover some interesting information. And I thought, hey, might as well share now while it's still topical instead of waiting until the seasons over. (Plus, it's hiatus, and I miss chatting with your guys whenever there'

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[risenshine22]

thank you for putting this together! interesting stuff!

btw, got a reply back from the Supernatural art department yesterday - they thanked me for the flower calendar I've sent them around Christmas last year. It was one for 2013 with a note stating, that SPN messed up the timeline again - and that we're back to 2013 ;)

[hells_half_acre]

Haha, well, at least you let them know that these things don't go unnoticed. ;)

[percysowner]

I wonder if this is another "let' just pretend the Cage year and the Purgatory year didn't happen because we forgot" or if they could be actually explaining why it's 2013. Probably just poor continuity.

[risenshine22]

I think they just ignored the year in hell and purgatory when it comes to dates in the current season. It's easier for them - plus they could insert puns about politicians or celebrities or refer to things happening right now!

[borgmama1of5]

I love you for figuring this all out!

And I bet you put way more thought into it than the show did :P But now we can all write fics to fill in the hours not shown on screen!

[hells_half_acre]

Ha, can't say I disagree with you. :P

But that's why I do this - to find all the space that delicious canon-based fics can fit!

[missyjack]

i think at some point show needs to deal with the boys' amphetamine use that powers those long no sleep/driving periods!

[hells_half_acre]

Yet, they probably never will. :P

Or, we could guess that they took turns driving back! And maybe Dean slept while he waited for Benny to show up... I hadn't thought about that. Maybe he was only awake for 36-48 hours, because you know, that makes such a difference.

I think the longest I've ever been awake is around 24 hours straight, and yeah, at that point, I'm just walking back and forth muttering to myself and hoping I don't fall over. Mind you, I seem to require more sleep than the average bear.

[missyjack]

I have been awake for 30/36 hours a few times but that involved a shit-ton of pharmaceuticals!

[hells_half_acre]

I don't even drink coffee - so 24 hours is an amazing feat for me. :P

[hells_half_acre]

No kidding!

I'm thinking though that "Hell time" is one the whim of the torturer. So, Dean was there for longer because they needed him to break before that much time had passed on earth. In which case, we don't really know how long Sam felt that he was in the cage, since, Lucifer and Michael would have controlled what time felt like in there.

[hells_half_acre]

I like to believe that Adam was kept somewhat protected (and still is) by Michael, and Michael's belief that he is on the side of good. Sam, he would have wanted to punish for rebelling, but Adam, as far as we know, was a good vessel.

[bard2003]

my "recored" was 78-80 hours on 4 hours of sleep in the middle somewhere. and i was at work all this time! but, and it`s a big one... i was 20 then. now 28 hours with lots of coffie and sleep for 12 hours after. :(

also, dean never slept in purgatory or ate. may be it`s something that doesn`t need to be done there?

[percysowner]

I remember that, so I'm guessing the Purgatory hours don't count for Sam, maybe the Hell hours don't either. It is a realm for spirits, so the rules for bodies can be different from earth. I'm guessing Sam didn't need to eat once he he Hell either, because I would be very leery of eating ANYTHING I found in Hell. That would explain why Sam's first words after releasing Bobby weren't food, water.

[hells_half_acre]

Yeah, they probably didn't count. In which case, let's hope that Sam did some of the driving on the way back from Maine. ;)

[hells_half_acre]

Indeed. So, for Sam, he probably just felt like he had been awake for ~12 hours only the whole time he was there.

Also, YIKES! on your recorded time without sleep. I had a friend who went without sleep for 3 days once while we were traveling. He was hallucinating by the end of it (though still in good spirits). Of course, we found out later that he was schizophrenic, so that probably didn't help. :P