Thread:CirUmeUela/@comment-27496405-20180307074410/@comment-26838855-20180608142349

So, Cloak & Dagger is off to a contradictory start. Great...

The flashbacks are clearly shown to be April 2007. They refer to them as being 8 years ago. But all other evidence places the present day stuff in more like February 2017.

Yet again, it's a problem from "8 years"...

My notes, though: Episode 1
 * There's a Lexus shown at the beginning of the episode in the prologue. Might be worth trying to find out what model it is.
 * Tandy in the prologue is shown with a flip phone, mid-to-late 2000s?
 * Nathan's phone is shown to be I think a mid-to-late 2000s kind of work phone.
 * Nathan's ID I believe says it's valid from ??MAR06 to ??MAR10, suggesting we're c. March 2008.
 * Present day stuff is "years later".
 * The song playing in-universe when Tandy enters the club is Lush Life by Leo Islo. The earliest I can find of this song being in public domain is it being posted on Soundcloud on March 27, 2017. It was released on iTunes on April 10, 2017.
 * The song playing when Tandy is talking to Rick is Right Now by Vindata. The earliest I can find of this song being in public domain is it being posted on YouTube and posted on Soundcloud on February 22, 2017. It was released on iTunes on February 22, 2017 as well.
 * The song playing when Rick puts on music at his house is Breakin' the Rules by Candace Coles & Darien Dorsey. I can't find much about this song online.
 * It's basketball season. DIrishB at The Comic Board linked this site, which shows basketball season in Louisiana is early October to mid-February, with state finals in early March. The exact dates would vary depending on the year.
 * Tandy is shown with pills at several points. I didn't try to see if there were any expiry dates on the bottles, but there might be.
 * They're making state finals in basketball, so they've probably just finished the season, with state finals around the corner. So around mid-February.
 * Tyrone has an iPhone. Not good on picking out exactly which model an iPhone is just from looking at it, can anyone else? I believe due to its curved edge it's at least an iPhone 6, which was released in September 2014. However, the iOS is at least iOS 7, and possibly I think at least iOS 8 with the way the keyboard is laid out with the Emoji icon in the bottom right. Again, that would be at least September 2014, but again, if anyone knows any more, please say.
 * Newspaper cuttings shown, but no dates I believe.
 * I believe Tandy's iPhone with its flat edges is no later iPhone 5, which only places us later than 2012, so that's all fine. If anyone knows better, please say.
 * Gravestones just have deaths in 1918, 1944, 1945, and 1955 so nothing significant there.
 * Newspaper shown in flashback but no date I can see.
 * "2007-04-18" shown clearly on the footage from just before Billy's death, so the prologue is April 18, 2007. Maceo Smedley who plays young Tyrone was about 10y0m old during filming for the pilot, so we'd be looking at Tyrone being born around April 1997. Child actors are usually a bit older than their character, but young Tyrone doesn't seem much younger than 10. I wouldn't say he's younger than 9, so Tyrone realistically was at the latest born April 1998. If Tyrone's a senior now then we'd be looking at it now being September 2014-June 2015, if not September 2015-June 2016. And since it's February, we'd then I guess be looking at February 2015 or February 2016.
 * The officer has worked there for over 20 years in 2007, so there since the mid-1980s.

Episode 2:
 * Sunrise is before 6:45AM. This only occurs between about February 9th and September 15th. This just about fits with it being late February.
 * Tyrone's father refers to the hard times they hit "8 years ago", very much implying Billy's death was 8 years ago. With that being April 2007, that would mean we're in February 2015. That's a bit odd, and only fits some of the evidence so far.
 * The priest has been talking with Tyrone for 3 years.
 * iPhones shown again. Again, if anyone knows better than me, please say.
 * Not really relevant to the timeline, but I think it's a bit odd that at "2:44PM"-"2:50PM" (shown on the phones) they're texting and mention lunch has not yet happened.
 * Tyrone's mother has some books. I haven't checked their publication date yet.
 * State finals are next week. So we're definitely around mid-to-late February.
 * In Tyrone's mother's vision, the missing signs that appear for her sons say "6/6/08". You would expect them to say the date Billy died, but that was clearly shown to be April 2007. Since this is just a vision, the date can be dismissed, but still, it's a bit odd. I guess it could be considered that June 6, 2008 was the date on which Tyrone's mother was having that breakdown/nightmare/anxiety which Tyrone is feeling/flashing back to.
 * Underneath the 6/6/08, dates of birth are shown for Tyrone and Billy. I'm going to need HD screencaps, it's really hard to make out. I think it might say something like "9/15/99" and "8/10/89"? But that's a very very rough guess. If Tyrone was born in September 1999 though, then we'd be looking at more like September 2017-February 2018 if he's a senior.