Timelines are a BITCH when Time can be Rewritten

I've started some of the preliminary ground work for our research, by going through episode by episode and making shiny excel spreadsheets out of the important information. I'm somewhat of an Excel whisperer, so even though this work has been a little tedious I've actually quite enjoyed it.

The spreadsheets tell when in time the episodes happen, who wrote and directed each one, and include other important notes which relate to the paper. I will post them as soon as they are FULLY complete.

Now that that's mostly done, I'm also working on individual character timelines for Rory, Amy, River and the Doctor, and those are a bitch.

The good news is I finished Rory's timeline. The bad news is I can't get it to post here without being too small, or gunking up the whole page. I am working on this, and you will have the glorious document soon enough.

The timelines themselves are helpful tools because they organize things visually, which is immensely good news for someone such as myself, who understands things better when they are graphically represented. They will serve as quick reference points throughout the research process, which will save us time and energy arguing over what happened when, and who was there for it and who was busy being Roman.

Some general notes on Rory's timeline:

• It is not to scale.
• As with all the timelines I will be doing, the "time" is from the character's perspective, not necessarily the order in which the episodes aired.
• The timelines take into account (so far) what we know, indisputably, from the episodes and minisodes themselves. Things Moffat has said on or off the record, or extended universe things from other audio or book adventures, are not considered.

I started with Rory thinking his timeline would be a relatively easy one to do, but this honestly has taken me almost a week to complete. I've gone into the Doctor Who wikia countless times already. I've rewatched several of the episodes. I've moved textboxes and arrows and lines all over the page, making sure things are correct. And Rory's life is relatively linear, compared to the others. He only re-lives one chunk of his life, as you will be able to see when I finally figure out how to post the picture.

I am not looking forward to Amy's. Or the Doctor's. OR RIVER'S.
Ah well. Geronimo?

--Jen