Howling:Torchwood series 2 is in 2008, why does the timeline say 2009?

Official dates for Torchwood series 2 have the early series as occuring in January 2008 going through to March and April 2008 on the official website that shows the team's messages to each other - all early 2008. The mobile recording during Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang that can be seen on the website says 2008, and so do in-inuverse reports on the website. The Torchwood novels set during series 2 say it's 2008... the Torchwood series itself has 2008, such as in Exit Wounds when Jack notes how long it has been since it was huried, which cites 2008. Why the hell are all the dates being ignored? And Children of Earth, which aired 1 year after series 2, said 2009, putting the former series in 2008. I think people on here are becoming ignorant of what's shoved in our faces - Torchwood series 2 is all in January to March/April 2008. In-universe websites, the mobile upload, novels, and the series itself. We can't just say make up our own date and say 2009 when 2008 is thrown in our faces from all sides. Good lord.

If you're going to use Doctor Who series 4 as an excuse, explain Donna's 2008 comment in The Fires of Pompiee and 2008 date in The Waters of Mars. Every source says they both occur in 2008. This stops to continuity errors with the specials being in 2009, which also force the former to be in 2008. Plus, in Doctor Who series 3, it's said in dialouge that it's 2007. In Torchwood series 1, dialouge cites it as 2006, making the after-Christmas part, which leads into series 3, in 2007. It all fits that way. I think we're all going to need to just accept this because it's forced that way. You can't fight the writers, the novels, and the in-universe websites, or in-universe articles. And look at series 5, 2010, further focing the dates sourced for the former mentioned unless you can pack Torchwood series 2, Doctor Who series 4, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2, Children of Earth, SJA series 3, and the specials all shoved into the same year. Just accept what all the sources say and set everything back. Who gives a shit what one episode ouf Doctor Who caused? It has dialouge from each series of the show and its spin-offs, some novels, in-universe websites, commentary, and in-universe artciles fighting against it. One episodes vs. all of that. Plus, time-wimey, this is Doctor Who, that explains how we can ignore Aliens of London. The writers, quite fraknly, couldn't give two shits about what that episode did, they ignore it and say time-wimey, goodness knows what the Doctor could have done! Delton Menace 00:08, April 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * Because Doctor Who was displaced by its first year back when the Doctor mistakenly took Rose a year ahead instead of 12 hours. ("Aliens of London"), making most of series 27/1 in 2006 rather than the 2005 airdate. Series 28 happens (after the Xmas special) in the following year--2007. This is the year of the Torchwood arc and introduction in Doctor Who. Torchwood premiered after this was done, placing Torchwood's season 1 in 2007. The following season of Torchwood was a year later, in 2008. Doctor Who continued to follow this convention until the 2009 Specials, when the time displacement was corrected such that new episodes this year are contemporary.  If Torchwood listed incorrect dates, it is in error.  As are any 'expanded universe' sources, being secondary to television canon. DigiFluid 07:04, April 29, 2010 (UTC)