Thread:Marvelous 345678/@comment-26838855-20161105005216/@comment-26838855-20161107171753

The more I see/hear people talking about the film, the more I hear casual moviegoers saying they think Strange must have been training for just under a year right up to several years. While these people don't analyse the timeline as heavily as we do - not noticing the 2016 award or knowing about the WHiH post, it has made me revert to my initial thinking, and yes, agree with you Marvelous - it isn't really reasonable to suggest the film spans anything less than a minimum of 4 months of recovery and 5 months of training. I think for now we ignore the Hong Kong reference and we keep AoS where it is, and put the end of DS in early February 2017 (the end credits scene in July), 4 months recovery, 5 months training. If later on we need to move AoS to 2017 for whatever reason we can do that and then fit Hong Kong around it but for now I feel there is no need to move AoS just because of an off-hand reference to Hong Kong. For all we know there might be a DS tie-in still to come as well which could change things. It may even turn out from Thor: Ragnarok that Doctor Strange takes us right up to the winter of 2017 around December, which is not as implausible as it might sound at first.

I think that we wait until AoS' mid-season break to put anything past waking up from the car crash on the timeline, but if there is no more evidence supplied by that time, DS up to early-mid February 2017 and AoS stays where it is I think.

SwagMaster, I hadn't thought of that, that is the best theory for who it is that I have seen - however that doesn't quite work because Diamondback is not a marine colonel, though the rest of the quote, 35 year old crushed his spine in an experimental armor fits nicely. However, Scott Derrickson said it is no one in particular, and the crash has to be after early May 2016. Even if you were to discount WHiH, it still has to be 2016 because he has awards from 2016 on display.