Daredevil: Timeline and Legal Details

[penfold_x]

I can tell I'm falling deep into a fandom when I feel the need to build precise timelines for a universe in my mind. For Daredevil, my priority is definitely figuring out how long Matt and Foggy have known each other, and what they were doing pre-series. The awesome ladies at @redringsideseats were kind enough to answer my newbie questions

Comments

[penfold_x]

Of course you did! *crawls away, more inadequate than ever*

[roguedemon]

Hey -- I've been obsessed with DD for a while now. You're right, a lot of the details are fudged or don't make sense in the real world. Also, the timelines conflict between season 1 and season 2. In season two, it is clearly stated that Matt met Elektra ten years ago, in college. Given that in S1 Matt and Foggy really seem like they met as freshmen in college (maybe sophomores, but some comics canon says freshmen) I have chosen to go that route. Columbia doesn't have dorms like that for law students -- it looks like a frosh dorm to me. Who takes Punjabi as a lark in law school, or any graduate program? I also can't imagine Foggy showing up to law school with that facial hair. Also, given the ten years timeline, they would have had to be in college when Matt met Elektra (comics canon says it was freshmen year), because there's a lot of years unaccounted for if they met in 1L -- four of them, in fact

[xanify]

ngl the thing I love most about this is that the first-year-of-corporate experience is largely universal across industries -- working long hours doing grunt work was definitely my experience (though not quite 60 hours a week, thanks to Australian labour laws)