Thread:BEJT/@comment-44641521-20200120151106/@comment-26838855-20200120195540

So yeah, this is the general idea. I could only fit so many characters into an edit description, apologies.

Basically, Alex's computer is not the exact number of days they were in there for, just how long since the last backup.

As Marvelus says, Dale the following episode states that it is Day 189 of him being off the grid. This means it has been 188-189 days since the end of Season 2, so the Runaways were only in the Dark Dimension for just slightly over 6 months.

The intention was not "the 6 months and 22 days is the time since Alex was possessed" per se, because the possessions are played as being gradual. Alex would likely still have had some control during that time. It was that the Dale line takes priority, since there's flexibility anyway over the last backup plus extra flexibility given Alex's possession. And as it happens, if you count backwards, 6 months and 22 days prior to the day they arrive would be around the time that Alex was possessed, so that works. It could work even if it was a few days after Alex's possession, assuming Alex had enough control to back it up for a while.

The point is that the Dale line is much more significant than the computer, with the computer essentially just telling us "It's been 6 months and 22 days since some point between around Season 2, Episode 5 (a bit before Alex's possession) and Season 3, Episode 4", but the Dale line specifically meaning it's been 188-189 days since Season 2, Episode 10.

We have assumed it's 189 days, that "Day 1" would be the day after he drove off with Gert. This is because Season 3, Episode 1 confirms the end of Season 2, Episode 10 (including the driving off) was evening, as "36 hours" later is morning, so the next morning would really be "Day 1", plus it fits a tiny bit better to be a day later rather than earlier for Alex's computer.

However, that portion doesn't necessarily begin on August 4th. That was where you end up at, working forward from January 28th as the ending date of Season 2. But about 4 days later, there is an event that - without spoiling, in case Brett3801 you have not finished the season - we find out in Episode 10 must have been during school term time. This means it should not be as early as August 8th, more likely late August, which would also mean having to add several days more of gaps into probably Season 2, to get it ending in February rather than late January. Plus a calendar behind Dale in the same "Day 189" scene seems to suggest it might be the 23rd. This has been discussed on the Timeline Discussion thread as something I still need to work out when I have time, but I haven't had time yet.

I left the write-ups for the January-February events on the dates they have been written onto because they make sense to a reader for now considering the current placements of Season 2, but I removed the August date a) because of the incorrect basis on the computer, but b) because the dates are yet to be determined, so there's no real place to reallocate it to other than just "August", and a reader could become more confused looking and seeing the August dates placed according to the "old" (current) Season 2 dates in early August when Episode 9 should in fact be late August. It's just more blatantly wrong.

Regarding the write-ups themselves, thank you for your work, Brett3801. It's always much appreciated when someone helps take a little bit off of our load when it comes to writing up all these events onto the timeline pages.

You weren't to know this as a user new to this and this also being absolutely not a rule or policy, just a thing us users who specialise in the timeline pages prefer to do personally, but when it comes to these write-ups we like to use draft pages we've created (Marvelus' great idea) to make sure things are written/organised/formatted/dated correctly before they get onto the timeline pages. The one for Runaways (the title has not been updated for the fact that it will also include Season 3) is this.

Again, you have done absolutely nothing wrong because there is no rule regarding this, we just find it helpful. What you have done is helpful regardless, but I just wanted to explain why there are rewrite tags still on the write-ups. I made sure to specify on the tags that there is definitely not a full write-up being asked for/required. It's just that the referencing (an admirable effort on your part to write the references the way we do, thank you) is not quite correctly formatted, there are a few things like unwanted spaces between the bullet point asterisks and the beginning of the writing and between the equals signs and the dates, and also just to indicate that the dates are not quite right (through no fault of your own, we just haven't had time to put them right).

The draft pages are not an ideal situation for a user like you anyway. They work for myself and Marvelus, but I would kind of feel bad if you had written them on there in some ways, because Runaways: Season 3 (as the latest release) is the bottom of the catch-up priority pile, so your good work could've ended up sitting there for months until I got around to checking it, which I would've felt bad about. Though perhaps something could have been arranged to move specifically those bits up the priority list to get your work on the pages sooner rather than later.

Anyway, just thought I'd provide an explanation for the rewrite tags and tell you about the draft pages for future reference and leave it totally up to you what you do with that information, whether or not you use them, whether you want to discuss options for any future writing (if you're intending to do any more), etc..

But it's important you know it's also still very much up to you how you work on this, it's anyone's wiki pages to edit and there is no rule regarding draft pages. Just letting you know of their existence.