Maybe I missed something, but what happened with Sky's job? Did he just quit in order to move back to the island for good?
He did say that.
He was on a six week temporary contract. He was offered a permanent position, but turned it down.
The Film's Time Period
If this is supposed to be 25 years after 1979/1980, how come we see iPhones? Let alone some of the later models? The original iPhone didn't become available to the public until 2007, and this film supposedly takes place in 2004/2005.
They must have figured it wasn't enough of a period piece to care about downgrading their phones.
In addition, if it is to be believed that Donna was conceived in 1959, as "Fernando" implies, that would mean Donna would've had to be nineteen when she graduated from Oxford. Now Donna did graduate at the top of her class, so I guess her skipping some grades is plausible, but this still bugs me.
Maybe she finished high school in one year instead of university.
The timeline is just a bit whacky in general. Meryl was 59 in the first film; Donna should have been no older than forty at the time. She graduated at 19 and became a mother at 20. Assuming that's correct - which the trailers and "Fernando" imply, then Donna is 40 in the first film as Sophie is 20 and Donna died aged 44.
I think a way to rectify this is refer back to Writers Cannot Do Math or that the film takes place before the year it was released.
Whether or not the timing worked, I don't think it's a given that Fernando is Donna's father, it's more that he was the big love of Ruby's life. I think that him saying "Mexico 1959" was just a quick way of establishing who he was. There's no reference after their song to "oh he's the GRANDFATHER/GREAT-GRANDFATHER". Also, Donna - if not by name - evidently knew all about Fernando (she mentions him before Waterloo), but makes no reference to the possibility of him being her father. I feel like if Fernando stood a strong chance of being her dad, she'd know. He COULD be her dad, but there's not enough info in the script to require that she was conceived in 1959.
Or, you know, she does know of Fernando, but Ruby implies from "Fernando" that he was off fighting in some war in 1959, so it's possible he and Ruby just sort of drifted apart and she never told him about Donna, but told Donna about him.
I just thought that Fernando was Ruby's "The one who got away and they found each other again" like Sam was for Donna and that Ruby married someone else and had Donna, which would help a bit with the timeline.
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