Liz: And the real Katarina Rostova â Stayed hidden.
Ilya: Years later, when Reddington finally found out what Dom had done to this innocent woman, he was horrified. He was guilt-ridden.
Dom: He was right to feel guilty. It was his fault that a plan was needed in the first place.
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So, in todayâs episode of âLycoRogue way overanalyzes thingsâ, I think ZagToon has actually given us some pretty decent evidence to more-or-less lock-in when this special takes place.
The key to narrowing it all down relies on this quick shot that the Miraculous team deemed worthy to grace us with:
This is Adrienâs bodyguard starting up a meditation app just as the flight from Paris to NYC is about to take off. This, plus the sunset showcased in the next few scenes, will help us start to narrow it all down.
So, letâs actually start with their flight. Based on a quick Google search for âfights from Paris to NYCâ I got this list of potentials in November (yes, just about all of them will then give you a pop-up stating that flights are restricted to/from US because of COVID, but weâll ignore that right now).
The airline the animators created for the special has a design that seems to mimic Air France.
So, weâll go with Air Franceâs listed nonstop flight - given that Alya mentions the âlooooongâ flight, we donât see or hear anything about layovers, and everyone passes out, weâll presume itâs a nonstop flight - and say that the class was on that plane for 8hrs and 40mins, more-or-less.
Okay. So we have the flight taking off at 15:55 (3:55pm). It is roughly an 8hr and 40 minute flight. This brings the class to 00:35 (12:35am) their time. At the latest, if we go with the 8hr 55min flight listed above, theyâre arriving at 00:50 (12:50am). Add in the roughly 30min drive from JFK international airport in Queens to where theyâre staying somewhere presumably around midtown Manhattan, and itâs past 1am their time. No wonder Ms. Mendeleiev wants them to go directly to bed when they get to their rooms!
Anyway, back on track. So, if theyâre landing somewhere between 12:35am and 12:50am their time, that means itâs between 6:35pm (18:35) and 6:50pm (18:50) Eastern Time.
Now, we wonât get into things like âhow the heck did they see the sunset on the plane and it was still happening as they drove into Manhattan when it probably takes an hour to make it through disembarking and Customs and weaving through a crowded JFK aloneâ because there are superheroes for friggen everything in this universe canon, so we can pretend 9/11 never happened and airport chaos isnât as bad.
Plus, the âsunsetâ Adrien and Marinette watched was still mostly above the cloud line, so it was closer to âgolden hourâ.
Now, the attack on the plane from an American supervillain and the quick capture by the main NYC/East Coast superhero team pinpoints the flight as nearing its end. Theyâre probably only a couple of miles out from the coast. Especially since Majestia welcomes their arrival, the flight is probably close enough to being over American soil.
Further proof: the flight is making its decent into JFK as TechnoPirate is handed over to the authorities. Since the superhero team was flying faster than the planeâs cruising speed, it shouldnât have taken them long to land and hand him over to the probably already awaiting SWAT team.
Okay, so we have established that the plane is probably coming into JFK International between 6:35pm and 6:50pm ET, and that they are in the Golden Hour leading to the official sunset as the plane descends. Which is also why the sun isnât close enough to the horizon for an official âsunsetâ quite yet as they drive through what is presumably Broadway.
I mean, itâs not crucial that itâs Broadway, but it looks like theyâre aiming for it to be...
Although this one marquee says âRoadway Musicalâ, so....
BACK ON TOPIC!
Okay, so itâs closing in on 7pm ET - or is closer to 7:20pm if you go with the 6:50 arrival and add in the 35min drive - and itâs the Golden Hour. Based on where the sun is, Iâd maybe peg the sun to be officially setting (as in, touching the horizon and sinking below it) between 7:15 and 7:45pm (19:15 and 19:45).
Plug THAT information into timeanddate.com set for Manhattan, and youâre looking at the first week of September or even the last week of August.Â
Alternatively, you could argue that it could also be the last week of March/first week of April.
HOWEVER, when the class arrives at the hotel and Marinette and Adrien are first trapped by the dreaded Automatic Doors, we do see this shop sign in the background sporting a jack-o-lantern design. Halloween-themed stores like this are usually seasonal and donât open until the end of August/start of September. Spirit, the largest Halloween-themed company in the US, has its âpop-upâ stores open late-August through early-November. So weâre probably looking at those September dates over the March ones.
Especially since we also get this establishing shot of the class pulling up to the museum and the second show of Adrienette vs Automatic Doors where we clearly see that some of the trees are already changing color. This solidifies that the French-American Friendship Week is indeed during autumn.Â
Based on that evidence, the first week of September does seem a bit early. First of all, leaves donât start changing in NY until the last week of September/1st two weeks of October, depending on how dry/cold the weather has been. So, what if we take the dialogue at face value and ignore that âsunsetâ is when the sun touches the horizon? What if we take it as âthe start of Golden Hour when the sky becomes more of that orange hueâ? In that case, weâre going back to the projected arrival time and using THOSE times against that one website.
The US premiere - which ended up being the world premiere - of this special was on September 25, which had a sunset time of 6:47pm. It could be a nice, neat way to have the air date be the canon date of this special and the classâs arrival within NYC. We can even bump it to the premiere on Disney Channel France and have it be Saturday, September 26th, with a sunset time of 6:45pm ET. This way it makes sense that Marinette wouldnât already be with her class leading up to the bus departure, since it would be a Saturday and non-school day, as well as why Luka would be available to give her that ride at about 3pm (15:00) instead of being in school/just getting out of school himself.
Also, if Adrien still has the same schedule he did back in âCopycatâ, he has fencing practices on Fridays.
We know that post-practice, Adrien tells Kagami that his class is going to NYC âtomorrowâ, which would seem to confirm that the class is flying out Saturday afternoon. Kagamiâs âIâll see you tomorrowâ and mention of "give us more time to practiceâ doesnât necessarily mean fencing class and instead probably explains what they do for âdatesâ in this awkward âare we dating now?â limbo theyâre in.
So, what do you think? Is their NYC trip from Saturday, September 26th through Monday, September 28th? Should we give more attention to the actual sunset times and have the trip be the first week of September?Â
Regardless of how we time the sunset, this trip IS in autumn, but itâs also after everything thatâs happened in the first 3 seasons, which most likely means this is the start of a new school year. How do we feel about the entire class lucking into being in Miss Bustierâs class again; no new students and not losing anyone to a different class? What about the fact that Marinette and Adrien have officially been Ladybug and Chat Noir for a full year, and that Paris has been surviving Hawk Moth attacks apparently daily for that year? What about the fact that Adrienâs birthday is probably right around the corner again? You think theyâll do another episode focusing on that and how it differs from his birthday in âThe Bubblerâ?
Whatâs your theory on everything? Do you have more evidence to lock this date down further?
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