Mostly by working backwards and making a lot of educated guesses (and a few wild leaps of logic). We're given a few definitive days--like the party in 1x01 being on a Friday and the night-before-"Lunatic" being a Sunday--so once I had the date of the "Night School" attack, I went from there.
The radio announcer in "Lunatic" specifically says that the school was closed on Thursday and Friday, which strongly implies that the attack was Wednesday night. It simply wouldn't make sense for the attack to have been any other day with the result of school being closed on Thursday and Friday.
I've been assuming the show takes place in 2011
The show definitely takes place in 2011. There's too much evidence to support that, not the least of which is Kate's tombstone.
but in 2011 January 1 was a Saturday
Yeah. I noticed that too. The only solution I have is that it's an imaginary 2011.
In what might be an unrelated point, February, March, and November 2010 have a calendar that match the day/date match up here. March 2010 is probably when, I believe, the pilot filmed. It's not inconceivable that JD timelined the first couple episodes based on the month he wrote them in. He did say somewhere that the timeline was carefully planned (though, clearly only in the first season) so that everything happened in about six weeks. He made a joke that, with that schedule, he could keep the kids in high school for ten years.
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Date: 2012-07-17 08:07 pm (UTC)Mostly by working backwards and making a lot of educated guesses (and a few wild leaps of logic). We're given a few definitive days--like the party in 1x01 being on a Friday and the night-before-"Lunatic" being a Sunday--so once I had the date of the "Night School" attack, I went from there.
The radio announcer in "Lunatic" specifically says that the school was closed on Thursday and Friday, which strongly implies that the attack was Wednesday night. It simply wouldn't make sense for the attack to have been any other day with the result of school being closed on Thursday and Friday.
I've been assuming the show takes place in 2011
The show definitely takes place in 2011. There's too much evidence to support that, not the least of which is Kate's tombstone.
but in 2011 January 1 was a Saturday
Yeah. I noticed that too. The only solution I have is that it's an imaginary 2011.
In what might be an unrelated point, February, March, and November 2010 have a calendar that match the day/date match up here. March 2010 is probably when, I believe, the pilot filmed. It's not inconceivable that JD timelined the first couple episodes based on the month he wrote them in. He did say somewhere that the timeline was carefully planned (though, clearly only in the first season) so that everything happened in about six weeks. He made a joke that, with that schedule, he could keep the kids in high school for ten years.