Thread:Marvelous 345678/@comment-26838855-20170701032609/@comment-26838855-20170818162749

I finished the show. The good news is, there's no hard contradictions, no props with weird dates and it all lines up with the current timeline.

The bad news is, there's very little evidence for placement. It's "months" after Iron Fist, "months" after Daredevil: Season 2, and the year following Daredevil: Season 2, but it could be anywhere from May-November 2016. I think we're pretty safe with Iron Fist now considering the same "months" is given as the timespan for both Dd2 and IF1, indicating that they're close together, but there's pretty much nothing to place Defenders.

All the cast statements match the "months" stuff would line up if it were May/June, and I usually don't count weather that much, but there is the one scene with lumps of leftover snow from what was probably about a week or so prior that doesn't line up (plus it's very grey in New York), and there is the precinct calendar.

But overall, I'd vote May 2016, just after Strange's crash. We place it, like I did with the 2011 First Avenger placement, with the maths of all the evidence, which would put it around May - we're looking at early-to-mid. So Luke was in prison for 5 months - that works, I wouldn't say it's much longer than that. It's been 4½ months since Elektra's resurrection, which fits as "months". It's been 2½ months since Danny went off the grid, which also fits as "months". It's juuuussssstttt about plausible that there's still snow on the ground (we shouldn't let weather affect it too much) from one or two weeks prior. It's 6 months since Elektra died, the end of the main events of Daredevil: Season 2, which works with what Charlie Cox said, and it's "two months" and "a couple of months" since Iron Fist, as Jessica and Finn said. Plus, it doesn't seem like it's been that long since Kilgrave - this would put it at 13 months, and this puts it before the Accords have really kicked in.

So yeah, like, Tuesday, May 10-Sunday, May 15 (epilogue to Thursday, May 19), 2016?