Talk:Timeline (film)

The Brahams Herald says that the current date is exactly 30 years to the day after the great fire, but does it look like late October/early November at the time of the movie's events? It also then states that Sister Margaret is celebrating exactly 30 years at the orphanage, but says earlier in the article that she started the orphanage "shortly after" the fire. I'm confused, is there some common logical thread I'm missing? AlessaGillespie 02:02, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

simplification of Alessa's Hospitalization
Was there a reason for the removal of so many details of that one scene from the article? Xeno the Hedgehog 06:40, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * If you'd like, you can add more details, but the whole paragraph was made to make Dark Alessa appear to be a demon, so I removed it, and replaced it with an explanation of Alessa's split soul and the creation of the Otherworld and Fog Worlds. Plus, I didn't see how Dahlia being outcast from the cult was necessarily so important at that point. AlessaGillespie 06:51, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Timeline issues
Revelation has screwed the timeline up something wicked. Bassett officially states in interviews that 6 years have passed between movies, yet Sharon ages 9 years. I don't believe it's ever stated in the film how long Rose and Sharon are in the alternate reality, but it can't be 3 years, because Sharon is the same age as in the first movie, and is even wearing the same clothes. Ever stranger, the official website lists Christabella, Cybil, and the Da Silvas as having been missing since 6.9.2006. I can think of no reason for this date, unless Bassett retconned the timeline of the first movie up 2 years. None of this makes any damned sense, and I'm not sure what to do with the timeline.  AlessaGillespie  Talk   Contributions  19:33, October 27, 2012 (UTC)

Splitting into two timelines
Unfortunately, the timeline needs to be split into two, one for the first film and one for all the retconning done in Revelation. There is simply no way these two very different timelines can be put together without creating confusion, or favoring one version of canon over the other. We know that Sharon's age was changed from 9 to 11 in Revelation, though a further retcon to the film's timeline leaves her dob as still being 1995. A tag on Alessa's screenworn outfit confirms that Alessa's age was also retconned from 9 to 11, which changes her dob from 1965 to 1963. Then there's the official site for SHR, which lists several characters from the first film as last being seen in 2006, which is a notable difference from the first film's timeline of 2004. I don't believe that the dates given on the site are simply to say that the movie came out in 2006, because the day given for each character's disappearance is 2 months off from the release date. This completely screws up the timeline. If everyone is okay with it, I'll separate this page into two different timelines, one for the first film and one for Revelation, as well as explaining precisely why it has two sections. Revelation's dates change literally every single date on the timeline except for Sharon's dob, because moving the film from 2004 to 2006 changes the birth dates for all characters, as well as the date of the Great Fire and Alessa's burning.  AlessaGillespie  Talk   Contributions  06:44, January 18, 2013 (UTC)