Maggie was pregnant for 3 years.

@Raymondoz2007 said:

There is very little mention on the show how much time has passed. Even though we are in the 9th season or 9 years. I have looked at that the seasons it looks like its been 3 years! Is that possiable? Below I have listed the seasons and the rough time line.

S1, Since Rick woke up in the hospital.............2 weeks

S2. on the farm................. 4 months

S3. They spents3,4? months through winter b4 finding the prison then govenor story line. .................................................5.6? months total

S4. a few months have passed since the govenor was beaten but once the action starts ....................................................5,6? months

S5, ................................................2 months.

S6....................................................3 months

S7.....................................................3 months

S.8....................................................3 months

S9. Time has passed since the end of s8, they don't say so lets over state it ..........................................................6 months.

MOst seasons end then run right into the next with a couple of exceptions. If its been only 2 or 3 years, that would explain how cars and batterys and gas are still ok but now they beginning to without these things which would explain alot of fans complaints about the gas should be bad.

So did I come close with my timeline????????? COMMENTS...................

I'd say, by the look of Maggie's non-existent "baby bump" to the size of her baby , who can sit up ( this milestone happens about 6 months old) , as evidenced of him in the playpen. So Maggie's pregnancy by the time we say good bye in the season finale , is about 4 months along, IMHO. So add 5 months more for Maggie Then 6 months for baby = 11 months, or maybe 12 months.

@Raymondoz2007 said:

There is very little mention on the show how much time has passed. Even though we are in the 9th season or 9 years. I have looked at that the seasons it looks like its been 3 years! Is that possiable? Below I have listed the seasons and the rough time line.

S9. Time has passed since the end of s8, they don't say so lets over state it ..........................................................6 months.

I think they said 1 ½ years between s8 and s9 on Talking Dead.

@Raymondoz2007 said:

So did I come close with my timeline????????? COMMENTS...................

At one point in life, TWD's timeline was something of a specialty of mine. Up front, I have to tell you the writers have never employed a timeline in any of this. TWD's writing is, for the most part, very, very bad, and while a timeline is one of the most basic elements of competent writing on a project of this sort, the writers have never even used one. As a consequence, the timeline one observes by watching TWD is absolutely full of contradictions and holes--a complete mess. Any effort to try to make sense of it is pretty much doomed from the start.

I can spot some errors in your own calculations.

--While the time spent on the farm in season 2 may have seemed like 4 months, it was actually only 15 days from beginning to end. We're with the characters every day of it except a break of one week at one point, established in the dialogue. By the end of season 2, it had been less than 3 weeks since Rick awakened.

--The break between season 2 and 3 has to be something a hair over 8 months, if timed by Lori's pregnancy, which, at the beginning of season 3, is said to be overdue. That sort of gets into one of the timeline messes from before, where Lori uses a home pregnancy test at a point far too early for any such test to reveal a pregnancy (a long story--I covered it in a piece I wrote at the time).

--Season 3 covers less than 3 weeks of storytime.

--You have multiple seasons covering months of time but unless I'm forgetting something, none of them except season 5 actually cover more than two or three weeks of time (season 5 covers 15 days plus an unknown gap in the middle--the only hint we're given suggests its about a month).

@Gus Gorman said:

Maggie was pregnant for 3 years.

Our time, yep. Upon the introduction of the Hilltop community, the Hilltop doctor gave Maggie a transabdominal ultrasound, something that would only work if she was 8 weeks or more along. At the end of that season, she suffered a serious complication that was later diagnosed as a placental abruption, a condition that can only occur after 20 weeks of pregnancy, and typically happens much later. A pregnancy that far along would be quite visible but in the entirety of her pregnancy (with the possible exception of one scene), she never had even a hint of a baby bump.

But that's the way everything works on TWD. The writers assume their audience is a bunch of inattentive dimwits. Horrific crippling and even near-fatal wounds heal in days.

@jriddle73 said:

@Raymondoz2007 said:

So did I come close with my timeline????????? COMMENTS...................

At one point in life, TWD's timeline was something of a specialty of mine. Up front, I have to tell you the writers have never employed a timeline in any of this. TWD's writing is, for the most part, very, very bad, and while a timeline is one of the most basic elements of competent writing on a project of this sort, the writers have never even used one. As a consequence, the timeline one observes by watching TWD is absolutely full of contradictions and holes--a complete mess. Any effort to try to make sense of it is pretty much doomed from the start.

I can spot some errors in your own calculations.

--While the time spent on the farm in season 2 may have seemed like 4 months, it was actually only 15 days from beginning to end. We're with the characters every day of it except a break of one week at one point, established in the dialogue. By the end of season 2, it had been less than 3 weeks since Rick awakened.

--The break between season 2 and 3 has to be something a hair over 8 months, if timed by Lori's pregnancy, which, at the beginning of season 3, is said to be overdue. That sort of gets into one of the timeline messes from before, where Lori uses a home pregnancy test at a point far too early for any such test to reveal a pregnancy (a long story--I covered it in a piece I wrote at the time).

--Season 3 covers less than 3 weeks of storytime.

--You have multiple seasons covering months of time but unless I'm forgetting something, none of them except season 5 actually cover more than two or three weeks of time (season 5 covers 15 days plus an unknown gap in the middle--the only hint we're given suggests its about a month).

Please repost your timeline.

@Raymondoz2007 said:

Please repost your timeline.

My articles specifically related to the timeline are here:

It's Walking Dead Time

It's Walking Dead Time Again

It's Walking Dead Time Yet Again

And, of course, my other articles on the show are full of stuff about the timeline or, more particularly, its lack of a timeline. For example, the opening of my review of the season 8 kickoff tackled the matter of Maggie's infinite pregnancy:

"Maggie is pregnant. She first revealed she knew this at the time of Glenn's fake dumpster-dive 'death,' way back in the middle of season 6. After our heroes took out the dead that had invaded the Safe Zone that season, there was a period during which they cleaned up and rebuilt. Dialogue implied it had been a month. Upon the subsequent introduction of the Hilltop community, the Hilltop doctor gave Maggie a transabdominal ultrasound, something that would only work if she was 8 weeks along or more. At the end of that season, she suffered a serious complication... later diagnosed as a placental abruption, a condition that can only occur after 20 weeks of pregnancy (and typically happens much later). At this same time, Carol, who had left the Safe Zone, was shot to pieces--multiple gunshot wounds. It would be a minimum of 5 or 6 weeks before she would recover from such injuries, probably significantly more. She did recover, convalescing at the Kingdom, then, when healed, spent x amount of time living alone outside the community, basically written out of the story. In the middle of that season, Aaron took an incredibly vicious beating by the Saviors that could have killed him and probably should have. It would have been another 4-6 weeks before he would have been fully operational again. Then in the last few minutes of season 7, Rick was shot. But tonight, he's fully recovered--another 5 or 6 weeks.[1] Maggie's pregnancy should have been quite visible since at least 12 weeks in and by tonight's ep, she should be ready to pop but instead, she still isn't even showing. And she even made a joke about her pregnancy--'They say you can wage war through the second trimester.'..."

For most of TWD's run, we're with the characters every day that passes (for years, 1 day/1 episode was pretty much a formula with the show). There are sometimes gaps between seasons, sometimes gaps within them. Both can usually be filled in pretty well with dialogue or other things happening on the show (like Lori's pregnancy, later Maggie's, etc.).

The show is absolutely bogged down in timeline contradictions, errors, impossibilities. One that would almost make a drinking game is how wounds, even the most horrific ones, heal in a matter of days, or don't, depending on the arbitrary whims of the writers.