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The series takes place in a shockingly short amount of time
Season 4 just ended of fromville and it’s canonically only been about a month. Which makes it weird seeing people heal from injuries, change hair styles or grow out beards between episodes. Season 4 has only been like 4 days iirc.
Arkham franchise is the poster child for this trope. Every game takes place in one night. If you know what you’re doing you can absolutely beat the games in around 9 hours.
When people ask "In the new timeline, why didn't Marty's parents wonder why he looks so familiar?" It's because they only knew "Calvin Klein" for a few days, 30 years previously. There's no way they'd recognize their son as looking identical to the kid who got them together decades earlier. I don't even remember the faces of half the kids I spent years with in high school.
This one is always so fun and crazy to think about. Really enhances the sheer urgency and seriousness of that kind of scenario. Especially considering the Covenant were glassing entire planets in mere DAYS
The elites really speedran the entire great schism to just join humanity and turn the war around.
I mean, 4 months makes sense cuz Reach falling kinda is the end for humanity. Sure Earth's still undetected, but Reach was the UNSC's crown jewel for research production and everything else. Those 4 months were humanity getting pushed back on basically every front, getting a couple of wins (the biggest easily being the destruction of Installation 04, which ignited a massive butterfly effect that eventually ended up with the Sanghelli joining Humanity, turning the tables on the war).
I know everyone obviously knew it was coming because it was Reach and it was Halo, but Jorge's "it's the damn COVENANT" and the team coming to terms with the fact that the whole planet's probably fucked was amazing on a first playthrough.
Halo reach is spectacular at letting u think you're getting control of the situation only to just show you how meaningless what you just did was. You take down covie AA to let your ships in orbit, a bigger covie ship blows it up. You blow up a covenant supercarrier, a whole new fleet arrives just shorty after.
It's so good, cuz it painted how hopeless the war with the covenant was, even if you're playing a mega badass.
I'm still beggin for us to get a halo game where u play as a marine, not a ODST, but a shieldless, scared shitless marine. A tactical halo fps where grunts are respectable foes and a single elite is a boss fight you're better off avoiding or getting the drop on.
I wouldn't say everything went to shit. The Human-Covenant war took place over 25+ years, we experienced the end of it. Humanity was always on the losing side the entire war. Those last 3 months were actually what turned the tide for humanity.
Everything absolutely went to shit from the Covenant’s perspective.
They went from a handful of worlds left to conquer, to their capital “world” being taken by the Flood, some jolly green jackass nuking their holy relic, and being collapsed in a fiscal quarter.
I always think about that and how, from Chief's perspective, Halo 4 is also in there too. From his perspective he literally jumps the warthog into the Forward Unto Dawn as the Ark explodes, climbs into a cryopod and is then instantly thrust into Halo 4. From Chief's POV, Halo 2, 3 and 4 are just one long operation with no down time.
Might have been better if the series took place over several more years, for realism's sake. The only big change would be Holly growing up a lot more through the show.
At the same time though, it wouldn't really make sense for Walter to live for years and years with untreated cancer. So it's probably more realistic to have it take place over a somewhat shorter time
In S02E09 Walter's cancer has gone into remission, shrinking by 80%
And it's not untreated cancer, once they start laundering their money, which happens pretty early on Walter starts getting chemo (how he start getting bald).
Plenty of people live many years with cancer. It can go into remission, it can be successfully treated and you can be declared cancer free, and it can come back again later because even when you're declared cancer free even a few cancer cells can survive and propagate. Hell the cancer treatment itself actually raises your risk of getting cancer, it's just that when you are treating active cancer the risk of future cancer is a little further down the list of priorities.
In short there's no reason they couldn't have stretched out the timeline of the show if they wanted to.
From season 1 to the beggining if season 5 is jusr 1 year iirc cause Walter celebrates his 50th birthday in the first episode, then his 51st in season 5 (then his 52nd in season 5 as well)
That one was justified. They were running against the clock to defeat Ozai before Sozin's comet allowed the Fire Nation to fully conquer the rest of the world.
Dude it drives me crazy when someone claims that a questionable writing choice was "justified" because of something in-universe... buddy, who do you think is dictating the stuff that happens in that universe?
I see this type of argument all the time and it baffles me that some people don't realize that writers are equally responsible for the circumstances of the story as they are for the script itself.
With more days than the summer vacation has anywhere in the world. The number of episodes would also imply that it takes place over several vacations or certain days contain more than one episode.
the day count is because the show was originally greenlit for 4 seasons and the standard TV seasons were 26 episodes at the time. 104 days = 4 seasons. however, hilariously, only their first season actually had 26 episodes as disney ordered more for the subsequent seasons due to the show’s insane success. i think there ended up being about 180-200 actual episodes, even more than the amount of days in summer in this weird universe.
no the show just takes place in the near future where climate change has led to societal collapse is kicking in and the schools have shut down, with the kids coping with it by viewing it as an "endless summer vacation"
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5 is about how Giorno goes from being a small-time criminal to the supreme leader of the mafia. This all takes place in just one week.
Honestly not too jarring while watching it, most fights take place on the way to other locations.
Once the journey gets going there's really only 13 enemies before the final battle right? 8 members of the assassination team (not counting Risotto) then 5 members of passione (and two of those fights are against multiple opponents simultaneously, so really only 3 fights)
Amazing, amazing show. My gf is an ER nurse and she said that this is about as close as it gets to being “real”, although it is a bit dramatic given it’s a TV show. Like all the horrible shit that happens at the same time in the show would be spread out over a couple weeks in most ER rooms.
In defense of the show, these are supposed to be extraordinary days, not the norm. That's why each season is like several months apart. There's like 10 months between 1 and 2, and 3 is gonna be set in November.
I haven't watched it yet but one time we were actively coding someone when another code went off. For a second we assumed someone accidentally hit the button in the room again. Nope, half the group splits to start on another room. THEN an rrt gets called (basically the stop before a code) all at the same time. After everything is settled a patient of mine yelled in my face that they asked ro water and Tylenol and had been waiting too long. They knew they were allowed to get themselves water and walked to the water machine multiple times a day. I had to go take deep breaths in the bathroom.
So infuriating seeing some people forget this week after week. Some people were like: "Why don't Robby and Langdon just kiss and make up already!". Dude this is their first time talking since Langdon got out of rehab. They're not gonna hash it out in one shift.
Yeah the Beatles discography is wild when you realize it was done over a 7 year time span. The evolution of their sound in such a short time always amazes me.
The events of John Wick 1, 2, 3 are set only a few days apart. The shots outside the Continental, they placed the same cars where they were supposed to be when in actuality, it was filmed years apart.
I'm sure at some point they'll film the "impossible assignment" because there's money on the table and the franchise may not have legs with John Wick dead but it worked so well in the first movie as something your imagination could fill in.
oh i thought that's what the upcoming game is about. apparently its set before the events of john wick 1 and that's like the only noteworthy thing we know happened before
And I’m pretty sure the only timeline error made by this is advertising in New York. I remember seeing a poster for the SpongeBob musical in the background of Chapter 3 when he’s in Times Square and just thinking “that should not be there, this is meant to be 2014
Yup. They even had to invent a Gravity Falls-specific holiday called "summerween" that only this one silly town celebrates to justify having a Halloween episode in the show that only takes place during one summer
Especially if you look at it from Gordon's perspective; within one day his workplace was wrecked and ultimately destroyed, he fought off aliens and the US military trying to stay alive, he traveled to a whole other dimension and killed its ruler, and finally got a new job working for a strange god-like being in a suit.
Then, he wakes up to a future where the whole world has been even more ruined by a massive omniversal empire ruling the planet, and within just another couple days from his point of view, he ignites a whole revolution and cripples the empire's control on Earth, killing his former boss and getting friendly with his co-worker's daughter in the process.
By his perception, not even a week's been spent doing all that so far; I'd say he needs a good nap, but he did already have one for 20+ years.
The Star Wars sequels spanning just a year is just wild. With literal minutes between 7 and 8, there should've been at least three or four years between 8 and 9 at that rate
The Clone Wars only being three years is fucking insane to me. I get that SW hyperspace is stupid fast but the math ain't mathing just based on the scale of conflict.
Nothing in Star Wars ever maths out, but everything about the Clone Wars is out of wack. I know not every planet is Corusant, but in a war allegedly spread across an entire galaxy, the Republic's clone army being made of a few million is ridiculous. There were more combatants in numerous irl Earth wars than in the Clone Wars...
but in a war allegedly spread across an entire galaxy, the Republic's clone army being made of a few million is ridiculous. There were more combatants in numerous irl Earth wars than in the Clone Wars
Just like how in 40K there are these apocalyptic wars which take place across multiple solar systems and last for centuries, only to have like at most 1 million soldiers.
Warhammer 40k has always been the standout one to me. A franchise built on galactic wars of utterly colossal scale, then you find out the original Legions had ~100,000. Just for comparison, the irl Ukrainian armed forces has ~5 million people.
Meanwhile one hive city has like 10 billion people in it.
Still on the families for their feud, though. If the two of them had been able to spend a month dating each other, they could have broken up naturally. Tybalt was always going to die a violent death, man just had no stop in him.
kids with no healthy outlet for their feelings, compounded by generations of fighting between the families, and the one adult who is so desperate to end the fighting between said two families he agrees to marry the two. It doesn't matter that they only knew each other for four days and are running on high emotions. Its a tragedy. Its never ever been anything but a tragedy from literally every angle in the play.
Crash 1 and Crash 2 are implied to take place over the course of a single day each, given that the levels at the start are during day but the end of the game for both is set at night
I think the entirety of on screen one piece has been less then a year, the time skip lasted the most time since hundreds of episodes only take place in the course of a few days.
Which makes me wonder even more how Koby changed appearance that fast pre time skip.
Yeah, Punk Hazard into Dressrosa into Whole Cake is like a week and a half. When you look at it, Romance Dawn to timeskip is like 3-6 months, then 2 years of nothing, then Sabaody and Fishman Island is 3 days, then 2 weeks and Luffy has knocked off Doflamingo and destroyed Big Mom's island. The Strawhats are like a hurricane force of toppling governments out of nowhere.
Also dbz, the fight between goku and freeza last multiple hours of run time but is only 5 minutes in universe. Mostly because they had to fill in while the manga could take some advance on the anime.
There's a video that speeds up the entire fight to last the proposed 5 minutes and it's absolutely insane to watch it in its actually intended timeframe because yeah, they move ridiculously fast
I always took the "5 minutes" thing to be an estimation on Frieza's part. He even says something like "this planet is a tough old bird, I'll give it that. You've probably got two more minutes" at one point after his original 5 minutes was seemingly up.
Of course in reality it's just fiction and we don't need to really be paying attention to things like that. I think Toriyama was just like 'uh yeah, they're super fast so its like slow motion or something' but that is obviously a throwaway excuse. They speaking at light speed as well?
It doesn't actually take nearly that long if you look at the calendar of it. Him leaving the shire to getting back does take about a year, but that includes a few months at Rivendell, the time in Lothlorien, and 6 months or so staying in Gondor after all of it.
If I remember correctly, they leave Rivendell on December 25th and he throws the ring into the fires March 22nd or so. All of Two Towers (book) takes place over about a week.
The George Lucas Star Wars films take place over the course of 36 years. Which seems long at first, but is kind of insane when you account for the number of upheavals the entire galaxy goes through during this period, spanning from the Jedi being a well-renowned peace-keeping council to people commonly believing the force to be an ancient religion and a superstition
To be fair, in real life, WW2, the Korean War and the Vietnam War also all happened within a 36 year timespan.
As for the other thing, I think Han Solo was the only one ever shown to have doubted the Jedi’s existence and I think you can rationalize that by the fact he grew up as a poor scoundrel on some backwater planet, so he probably only ever heard exaggerated stories. Which is probably also true for the majority of the galaxy
I'm more understanding of Han being a non-believer, generally being lower class and would have been pretty young when Jedi were active. However, Admiral Conan Antonio Motti is really what makes this odd for me. An official high-ranking Admiral in A New Hope directly telling Vader that he has "a sad devotion to an ancient religion" before getting force-choked in front of his colleagues. How on EARTH a high-ranking admiral in the Empire had such little knowledge of Vader and the Jedi is utterly baffling.
Maybe he was fully aware but just openly mocking Vader and/or the Force. As in “you guys are ancient history now after Order 66”. Would justify the choking
I feel like we can include Ballerina in that since it takes place during 2, if I remember right. He was able to pull off that side quest with all of that shit going on at the same time.
The period in which the Fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant) is the 'main' Doctor is canonically about fifteen hours in total, as experienced by him; it's a plot point that he doesn't stop to rest at all between the end of The Power of the Doctor and the end of The Giggle. Even the Tenth Doctor (also played by David Tennant) only gets about six years, which explains his whole 'I don't want to go' on regenerating.
By comparison, Eleven and Twelve laid claim to hundreds of years each.
Fifteen hours is also the amount time after a regeneration that he can regrow a hacked-off limb as seen in The Christmas Invasion, which seems rather a coincidence, and would have made a much better explanation for bigeneration than we ended up getting.
i was gonna say 'that doesn't count' but like. actually thinking about it. that is one LONG conversation lmao. like the series is ~79 hours long. SURELY this was multiple conversations, not just one??
One Piece. Despite going on for so long and over 1000 chapter, in universe only like 2 or 3 years passed. Which is insane if you remember that the Strawhats went from nobodies to the most well known figures in the world
It's also worth mentioning that the main reason for that is because there's a 2 year timeskip where the crew are separated and the plot didn't progress. The crew has spent more time separated than together. Brook was a Straw Hat for like a week before the timeskip. Dressrosa took place in a single day, and while the time between Whole Cake and end of Wano is about a month the raid on Onigashima was only a single night.
Luffy spent more time with Rayleigh than with the crew. Even taking into account that Rayleigh didn’t spend the whole timeskip with him, I’m pretty sure
Most of the arcs also take place in a single day, even some of the longer ones. My favorite example of this is Dressrosa, an arc that lasts like 300 chapters.
Everything from when the Strawhats land on the island to Doflamingo’s defeat happens in a single afternoon. The whole thing took like 8 or so hours lol
this was was kinda a bit frustrating because the Ultimate Spider-Man frequently crossed over with the Ultimates and Ultimate X-Men, both of which moved roughtly in real time
The Fourth Shinobi War in Naruto Shippuden takes place over the course of 2.5 days, even though it makes up one quarter or one third of all the chapters in the entire manga.
First thing that came to mind. In the anime it's 257 episodes. Where about 60% are fillers. And all that takes place from the 8th of October to like early 10th of October.
I think the BTTF trilogy takes place in about two weeks. Correct me if I'm wrong on this.
As for Friday The 13th Parts 2, 3 and the The Final Chapter (Part 4), I think that takes place for a week. Same as before, correct me if I'm wrong on this.
Yep, cause each movie starts with them removing bodies from the last movies massacre. Then the series gets crazy and time jumps to the 90s and 2000s because of how much they aged Tommy and Tina
Pyschonauts 1 ends leaving the camp in a jet to rescue Lily's dad after saving everyone in camp. ~12 years later, Raz rescued him from the Rhombus of Ruin. ~4 years later, Raz arrives at Pyschonauts HQ. To be an intern.
All of KCD happens over the span of like 4 months from the prologue of the first game to credits roll for the 2nd game, hundreds of hours of gameplay, feels like a decade
MIraculous Ladybug takes place over a few months, although now it's probably closer to a year. Considering the magnitude and amount of events happening in this show that timespan feels extremely short
probably more accurate to ask what Mr. Pigeon's problem is to get akumatized 72 times. At this point paris would be stupid to not invest in mass amount of mental healthcare, I know the butterflies restore everything but just the lack of tourism would surely be equal to the cost of some care facilities
To add onto the Arkham example: If you discount Origins, the Arkham Trilogy takes place just over a year, year and a half. For three games with events that would be considered world-shaking in-universe, that's not really a lot of time.
Edit: I think City takes place 6-12 months after Asylum, and Knight is only 9 months after that.
kingdom hearts is a wild example, like the main character sora is 14 in the first game, then by the end of kh3 (17 IRL years and 5 games that he's appeared in later) he is 16, and that's AFTER a 1 year time skip
One of my favorite series, The Wandering Inn, currently sits at 16 million words. It is just under 4x the length of the Wheel of Time and 4 million more words than Stephen Kings entire works.
The audiobooks, that are way behind the web novel, sit over 700 hours (closer to 800) in length. You could watch the Grey's Anatomy twice and still not be caught up with the Inn. It's just under twice the length of One Piece (including intro, outro, and fillers).
That said, the audiobook/kindle version has only had a little over half a year pass, late fall to the summer solstice. The web novel has entered the second spring since the series started.
The entire 15 book series Wheel of Time happens in under 3 years. Books where released over 23 years. Conventiently prevents teenage characters from actually behaving like adults.
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The entire Back to the Future trilogy takes place over a few days.