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)
 * The writers are know to have ignored that and not given two shits, so they resulted to retcon. As we have: dialouge in Torchwood series 1 puts in in 2006 and the later part 2007, dialouge, the novels, and the in-universe website in series 2 puts it in 2008, dialouge and a newspaper in series 3 puts it in 2009. The writers don;t give two shits about the year thing, they never did. Even Doctor Who ignored it as of the episode 'Dalek', series 2 ignored it, series 3 ingored it, series 4 ignored it, the 2009 specials ignored it. They simply couldn't give two fucks. The 2009 specials forced it furhter by placing Planet of the Dead in April, forcing The Stolen Earth/'Journey's End into May 2008... the funny thing is, The Waters of Mars put them in 2008, and Partners in Crime, from dialouge, is said to be 2008. When will you people get that they don't give a shit about that year crap? Even Moffat thinks it's a load of bull that they simply retconed.
 * Nothing is displaced because it's clear they didn't care, and decided to ignore it. This is one thing vs. all three shows, all series, dialouge, novels, in-unvierse websites, and commentary. You lot are way stuck-up. It's a freaking retcon. Delton Menace 15:42, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * It's a Wikia. Our only "proof" is what's shown on-screen, not what we decide when we're having hissy fits at people who try to explain why things are written as they're written. Also: it's dialogue. DigiFluid 17:01, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * What is shown on-screen is nothing being a year ahead. Writers couldn't give two craps about what one episode is supposed to have done. Delton Menace 20:58, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * Go watch Aliens of London again. It's not my fault you weren't paying attention. DigiFluid 21:17, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * No one, including the writers, ever cared about that. Both on-screen and off-screen completely ignored it. What about the dialouge in Blink saying it's 2007? Dialoug ein series 4 saying it's 2008? Dialouge in series 2 Torchwood saying it's 2008? The newspaper in series 3 Torchwood saying it's 2009? The Waters of Mars putting a series 4 event in 2008? Aliens of London did try to displace things, but quite fraknkly, every single story decided not t ogo along with it, and they kept themselves where they were. The wrtiers said, "fuck it, we're not letting one episode of series 1 put everything one year ahead." No matter what, you have Aliens of London vs. both on-screena and off-screen dates, commenteries, dialouge, papers, everything. They all ingored it because they don't care. Delton Menace 00:43, April 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * It happened. Deal with it. And for god's sake, at least try to spell 'dialogue' correctly. DigiFluid 01:18, April 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * It was retconed, deal with it, because the writers couldn't care less. That's right. Retconed. It was overwritten because all later things. In a shoe where the main character is time traveling like that, he can change backs back to how they should have been. So, in a senese, the Doctor retconed it back to normal. Delton Menace 04:59, April 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * Go watch Aliens of London again. It's not my fault you weren't paying attention. DigiFluid 21:17, April 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * No one, including the writers, ever cared about that. Both on-screen and off-screen completely ignored it. What about the dialouge in Blink saying it's 2007? Dialoug ein series 4 saying it's 2008? Dialouge in series 2 Torchwood saying it's 2008? The newspaper in series 3 Torchwood saying it's 2009? The Waters of Mars putting a series 4 event in 2008? Aliens of London did try to displace things, but quite fraknkly, every single story decided not t ogo along with it, and they kept themselves where they were. The wrtiers said, "fuck it, we're not letting one episode of series 1 put everything one year ahead." No matter what, you have Aliens of London vs. both on-screena and off-screen dates, commenteries, dialouge, papers, everything. They all ingored it because they don't care. Delton Menace 00:43, April 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * It happened. Deal with it. And for god's sake, at least try to spell 'dialogue' correctly. DigiFluid 01:18, April 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * It was retconed, deal with it, because the writers couldn't care less. That's right. Retconed. It was overwritten because all later things. In a shoe where the main character is time traveling like that, he can change backs back to how they should have been. So, in a senese, the Doctor retconed it back to normal. Delton Menace 04:59, April 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * It happened. Deal with it. And for god's sake, at least try to spell 'dialogue' correctly. DigiFluid 01:18, April 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * It was retconed, deal with it, because the writers couldn't care less. That's right. Retconed. It was overwritten because all later things. In a shoe where the main character is time traveling like that, he can change backs back to how they should have been. So, in a senese, the Doctor retconed it back to normal. Delton Menace 04:59, April 30, 2010 (UTC)