User talk:Ricard Desi/Heroes Timeline
Genesis
You really need to look at a calendar of 2006.
Genesis is September 28, 2006. Why?
- Sylar's watch shows the date and time that he killed Chandra, which can be seen very clearly in I Am Become Death as the 24th day of a month. The bulk of Genesis occurs four days later, which is September 28, 2006. Mohinder finds out about Chandra's death within hours of the occurrence (remember that there is a 9.5-hour time difference between New York City, New York and Chennai, India) on September 25, 2006 and comes to his apartment/claims the body on September 27, 2006.
- Claire's MySpace makes it very clear that Genesis takes place after school on a school day (Zach and Claire are filming after school). October 1, 2006 is a SUNDAY. September 28, 2006 is a Thursday and Jackie claims credit for the incident on Friday. Sandra also makes a comment about going to the new mall in Gardendale on Saturday. It kind of makes more sense if we're talking about the end of a week instead of a Sunday of the weekend before.
Your assertion that every episode happens on one day doesn't work with what is seen in the episodes. In fact, scenes are not necessarily linear either (in fact, rarely are). (I have worked out a more specific calendar on Microsoft Works Calendar, complete with calculated times of day. You must factor in travel times, time zones, days of the week, school days, date and time indicators, etc...)
Hiro's trip to the bar on October 2, 2006 is on a separate day from Japan's eclipse on the morning of September 29, 2006.
- If Homecoming is three weeks after Genesis, that is October 13, 2006. Charlie died on October 12, 2006. Homecoming specifically gives a school calendar where Homecoming takes place on a Friday. Another fallacy of the one episode = one day assumption. Putting Homecoming 3 weeks into October simply makes it impossible to get all the events to happen by November 8, 2006. October 13, 2006 is Homecoming--three weeks after the last week of September.
In my estimation, the comic with Daphne's backstory probably used the incorrect timeline from this site. Whoever moved the date indicator on Sylar's watch got it right.NileQT87 15:11, 30 November 2009 (EST)
- In my defense, while there are a lot of fairly solidly established timeline positions based on later episodes, I'm taking this one episode/graphic novel at a time, to ensure that I don't overlook anything. Now let's look at this stuff bit by bit:
- I would agree that Sylar's watch saying "24" implies September 24. However, the day after the Eclipse (October 1, 2006), Mohinder says outright that Chandra was killed "4 days ago" (September 28, 2006).
- I'm afraid Claire's MySpace is filled with problems and cannot currently be considered a reliable source of information. The Caged Bird, Part 1 (as well as the October 2 Odessa Register talking about the Train Fire) explicitly place the Eclipse on October 1, 2006. I am aware 10/1/06 is a Sunday (in fact, Hiro's watch even shows "MO10/02" when he's in the future).
- I have definitely made checks to make sure that events follow as they should, not assuming everything is one day. The Eclipse sets pretty much all of Genesis on Oct. 1. However, Don't Look Back has Niki continuing her stuff from Oct. 1 and Parkman dealing with the Walker homicides on an unknown day, while everything else takes place on Oct. 2.
- Three weeks is 21 days. 21 days after October 1, 2006 is October 22, 2006. She says outright that it is "three weeks from today".
- In my defense, while there are a lot of fairly solidly established timeline positions based on later episodes, I'm taking this one episode/graphic novel at a time, to ensure that I don't overlook anything. Now let's look at this stuff bit by bit:
- Much of this timeline configuration comes specifically from the October 2 date on the Odessa Register and Hiro's watch. The Eclipse, as such, MUST have occurred on October 1, 2006. --Ricard Desi (t,c) 13:41, 30 November 2009 (EST)
- Hiro's story takes place on slightly different days because of the time difference and the fact that the evening out with Ando is several days later. The only conflicts with September 28, 2006 are The Caged Bird )which probably used this site) and the Odessa Register. Everything else, most importantly the fact that October 1 is a Sunday and some serious date cramming issues, points to September 28--the MUST date. Believe me. I have it all mapped out to the time of day that events occur. October 1 does not work at all. And there's no possible way that Homecoming could be on any day but October 13, 2006 without running into the one-day fallacy later on.NileQT87 15:11, 30 November 2009 (EST)