Thread:BEJT/@comment-1894786-20180803044347/@comment-26838855-20180805021218

Hi, thanks for contacting me. Sorry I'm a bit late in responding, I was making sure I had all the information collated.

Yeah, I got the "Rands" mention. It was also shown ahead of time in the trailer for Episodes 9 and 10 that they released 2 weeks ago at SDCC.

"Rumoured" might not be the right work for the 2015 setting,there was no rumour, it was just implied by the fact that we're 8 years on from the accident in the flashbacks, and that initially seemed pretty firmly set in April 2007. However, later evidence has very much overruled that, as I'll get into.

You're right about February 2016 not working because Mardi Gras was early in 2016 and it was before Danny revealed himself to have returned.

The wiki's timeline was from the Chinese New Year parade and the timeline references given by the actors about Iron Fist: Season 1 and The Defenders: Season 1, and how it all links together. I remember watching that interview, talking about walking the streets of New York barefoot in spring, but I seem to remember being fairly sure he was talking about himself and his feet during filming, not the character of Danny Rand within the show. The mention of spring was about when they filmed the show, not when it was set, I thought. Aside from the February-March 2016 placement for Iron Fist: Season 1, the other option we've looked at, and that some people have gone with, is Summer 2016. This is because of the June date on the homeless man's phone in Episode 1 - although there are several problems with that. It's a scene set late at night, but from memory, the time shown on the phone is something like 6AM. And as well as this, they're supposedly on Safari looking at a webpage, but it's clearly a screenshot in their photo album from that date and time, that they've accidentally tapped on, revealing the date and time it was taken. The other evidence is a July phone date shown for a split second in whichever episode it is where Danny contacts Karen Page, I can't remember. This is also most likely just the date they filmed the scene, and they didn't bother to change the phone's date. Finally, there's some files that Harold looks at for drug trafficking, and they have a July 2016 date. The three summer dates are mutually incompatible though, so there's no real consistency to them, and we felt they were overruled by several sites (as well as a Chinese friend of mine) saying that the parade in Episode 1 is indeed Chinese New Year, and the fact that that matched up with actor comments about the timeline. We go into it more in the references of the 2016 page I believe.

The Jeph Loeb thing isn't quite the case. As people have pointed out, he said "for the most part", which doesn't necessarily mean everything - however, at SDCC he cleared it up, saying that they all would be set before Infinity War "unless otherwise specified" or words to that effect. So yes, this should be before Infinity War, but that has no effect on Cloak & Dagger. I hadn't gotten around to editing 2018 yet until today, because Ant-Man and the Wasp didn't come out here in the U.K. until this week and I had to avoid spoilers - but for the last month, on the Timeline Discussion, we've been talking about how to reconcile the new timeline information from Ant-Man and the Wasp (which would place Ant-Man and the Wasp and Infinity War around June 2018) with the evidence we currently have (which would place Infinity War in more like January 2018). It's now been updated and corrected, so if you look at the references on the 2018 page you can see the explanation for why they take place, at least for now, in late March 2018. There will no doubt be further information to come, likely in Avengers 4 and Spider-Man: Far from Home and quite possibly other places, but late March 2018 is pretty much the earliest we could possibly place it - it won't be getting any earlier than that. So since Cloak & Dagger takes place in February of either 2015, 2016, 2017, or 2018, all of these would naturally fall before Infinity War.

However, you've got the right idea. It's not quite as simple as the process of elimination you've given, but the show does take place in early 2017. Specifically, late February 2017. The end of the basketball season is happening through the first few episodes, which is traditionally late February-early March in Louisiana. The Mardi Gras mention forces it to be a little earlier in the MCU than it is in the real world, but only by a couple of weeks - pretty much the whole thing takes place in the second half of February 2017, with the finale spilling over into March 1st.

Of all the MCU shows, Cloak & Dagger was the worst with its timeline and continuity (I'm not talking about quality here, I thought it was pretty good). It was all over the place and it almost felt like it was trying to keep contradicting itself.

We know that the flashbacks and the present day events are exactly 8 years apart, with Episode 8 being the 8-year anniversary. We also know it's February in the present day (and thus also the flashbacks), due to the basketball season coming to a close and Mardi Gras appearing in the finale.

This already makes the April 18, 2007 date incorrect, with the flashbacks having to be set in February. But, as I've listed in the link below, there is evidence placing the flashbacks in 2008 and 2009 and possibly even 2010, and there is evidence placing the present day events in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Because we know they are exactly 8 years apart, it is a matter of weighing up: And seeing which pair comes out strongest. And all in all, 2009 and 2017 comes out pretty clearly as the pair with the strongest evidence.
 * The total evidence for 2007 + the total evidence for 2015
 * The total evidence for 2008 + the total evidence for 2016
 * The total evidence for 2009 + the total evidence for 2017
 * The total evidence for 2010 + the total evidence for 2018

[Here's the Cloak & Dagger explanation https://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:241334#83 Here's the full explanation of how messy it all is, if you want to understand a bit better].