Talk:Timeline

Super Friends Season One is set in the future
Hi Super Fans, this is user Noah Tall. I have been doing some research, and we seem to have some inconsistencies in our timeline page. It seems quite likely that it was just a mistake on the part of the writers, but nevertheless, the issue exists.

The way to solve the problem is simple. It seems apparent that the first season of the Super Friends was set in the future, the near future that is.

You see, the show aired in 1973, but the setting had to be more like 1976. Three years in the future at the time. Why? Well, it's Gleek's fault to tell you the truth. There was a passing line that our favorite space monkey had just turned 6 years old in the episode Invasion of the Space Dolls. That puts his birthday some time in 1977. And we know it's '77, because by the time Season 2 comes out, we know the show is now set in the present. In the real world, there is a four year gap between seasons one and two, which gave the real world time to catch up with the Super Friends future.

Anyway, if Gleek was just born in 1977, that would be consistent with The All-New Super Friends Hour, which aired that year, however that would have to mean like many animals, that he reached adulthood within a few months of his birth. That's not impossible, especially since he is an alien. And many animal species here in the real world also reach adulthood within a few months to a year after they are born. It's even quicker with insects, which have a few months for a lifespan. But still, Gleek would have been a rather young adult, and Marvin White and Wendy Harris seem to be about the same age as the Wonder Twins, when they are seen in Season One and in the Super Friends comics. Because of that, we know that the Super Friends comics must be set in from 1976-1977, but Marvin and Wendy being there seems to indicate that it couldn't have been three years between season one and two from the perspective of the Super Friends universe, despite that in real life that was the case. It seems more likely that the setting for season one would have to be a year before The All-New Super Friends Hour at the most, because the comics are set practically immediately after season one, with not much time possible to have passed. Naturally, one could argue this point and say that just because Marvin and Wendy didn't grow up any between the time of the first season and the comics means nothing, because the Wonder Twins also were always young throughout their appearances in the show. This is true, but there's something that we should think of, 1) they are aliens, who knows what their lifespans are like, 2) They were only in the show for 7 years, they weren't even in the last season. If they were 15 or 16 in their first appearance, that would make them 22 or 23 in their final appearance, which is still quite young. Another thing, High School was never referenced in there case to my knowledge. Marvin and Wendy however, in the cartoon, were shown to be students in High School, probably seniors, which would make them about 17 years old, possibly 18. This is not a positively established fact, but if we were to assume that they were 17 in 1973, which was the real world time the show aired, then by '77 they would be 20 or 21, and just graduating. Even though Marvin was bumbling at times, they were supposed to be intelligent, and I don't see how it would take them so long to graduate. In any case, they couldn't have been any younger then 14, which they were obviously supposed to be older than that. But anyway, if they were younger than that, they most likely would have still been in middle school. The years just don't add up, so to me, it only makes sense that the first season was set in '76 instead of '73. So let me recap. The positive date we have is 1977, which was the year that Gleek was born. He must have been a few months old by the time he appeared in the Super Friends comics and later The All-New Super Friends Hour. Keep that thought in mind - also, Marvin White and Wendy Harris appear in the comic that the Wonder Twins first appear in, and they only just go off to college after graduation. That means, they must be 17 or 18 at this point, which isn't any older (or much older) then they are in Season 1. The most time that could have gone by between the Season 1 and the first appearance of the Wonder Twins is one year. This would mean in season one they'd be more like 16 or 17, possibly juniors in High School, that is, 11th grade. But they were clearly just graduating 11th grade in '77, and were starting their first semester in college, so that would have to mean that they attended 11th grade 1975-1976, and 12th grade from 1976-1977. And by the time of that comic book story they were about to attend their first year of college from 1977-1978. That said, it doesn't make any sense that season one of Super Friends could have possibly been set in 1973, but it must have been circa-1976. (or 75 at the earliest) I've chosen '76 over '75 because it works better, since '77 was the following year and the positive setting of Season 2. And I actually like the idea of season one being set in the future, the thing is, there was a lot of stuff happening in that show, such as First Manned-Mission to Mars, the Mars space station and other things like that in the show that wasn't happening in the real world...putting it in the near future actually makes a lot of sense. Now keep in mind, that I'm not sure just how this would affect the timeline overall, but we might have to bump the dates up for the Filmation shows as well, I just don't know for sure. I see that User:Superman Fan has the date that the Justice League of America is founded at 1968. That was the future at the time the episodes aired as well, in real life it was 1967. Even still, we may have to bump the date up even further. I still haven't taken much into consideration just how much this will shift the timeline, but if it even does, it won't be by much, and in my mind, it shouldn't effect the dates that come before or after it, but I really am not that certain. But it is a wiki, we'll just make the adjustments when and if needed as we always do! --Noah Tall (talk) 13:27, October 2, 2015 (UTC)