Thread:Marvelous 345678/@comment-26838855-20170701032609/@comment-26838855-20170819195501

1) https://comicvine.gamespot.com/forums/gen-discussion-1/when-does-iron-fist-take-place-1865200/

2) http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/02/07/the_trailer_for_netflix_s_iron_fist_shows_marvel_still_figuring_out_the.html

3) http://snowpavilion.co.uk/iron-fist-season-1/

4) http://www.refinery29.com/2017/03/145703/iron-first-netflix-danny-rand-asian-mask-whitewashing

Not sending those websites for their content, just the fact that all of them seem to agree Iron Fist is Chinese New Year.

And remember what my Chinese friend said: BEJT wrote: I said to my friend:

"Iron Fist's timeline is a bit weird and there's a bit of an online debate - there's a scene in the premiere that shows a Chinese celebration. It looks a lot to me like Chinese New Year - I thought they showed the dragon and lion dance, which I thought were unique for CNY. However, it's not 'ideal if the show is set in February. So some people are saying "Well, it could be any Chinatown celebration - doesn't have to be CNY" and placing it at other times in the year. But I'm still personally convinced it is, however I'm obviously not an expert. If I send you the timecode of the scene, can you tell me:

a) if you think it is Chinese New Year

b) the chances that it's some other celebration (if at all)

c) if there's any other celebrations you think it could be?"

He replied:

"Ok so it does look like CNY, the mask he puts on is a monkey one I think and that's one of the 12 zodiac animals. The next most likely festival would be mid autumn but that doesn't really work as there are no lanterns and you wouldn't put on a mask. All in all it looks like CNY albeit a bad one as no one is really wearing red and waving stars and lightsaber things isn't really all that Chinese😂"

By the way guys, 2016 was year of the monkey! That lines up exactly with what the third article says. It's not a very good representation of the celebration, but it is Chinese New Year.

And now we know Defenders is "months" since both Daredevil: Season 2 and Iron Fist: Season 1, so they should be reasonably close, and regardless of whether the cast's statements should actually determine the placement of Defenders, if you look at how their statements compare, using Daredevil: Season 2 as the start point:

So in other words, the cast statements would put the ending of Iron Fist about Day 17 (Dec 8th) + 3⅔ months, around late March. Now, yeah, Iron Fist around CNY would put it on March 1st, but still, the cast statements also line up pretty well with it.
 * Day 0 (Nov 21st) - Elektra dies, end of main events of Daredevil: Season 2.
 * Day 34 (Dec 25th) - End of Daredevil: Season 2 epilogue.
 * Day 17 (middle of the two Dd 2 endings) + 6 months - Roughly where Defenders picks up, according to Charlie Cox. According to Jessica Henwick and Finn Jones' statements, this is about 2-and-a-bit months after the end of Iron Fist
 * Day 17 + 6 months - 2-and-a-bit months, so in other words, Day 17 + 3⅔ months - Roughly where Iron Fist ends.

All in all, I think it's fair to say that Iron Fist is February-March 2016 as previously considered, and not later in the year.

I'd say once it's ready on the user page, Iron Fist can go onto the 2016 (and other) page(s), but Defenders, like Iron Fist before, goes only onto the user page until Punisher. There's only 3 months to wait instead of 5 like with Iron Fist, so it shouldn't be too bad.