Perhaps, but Jimmy is better known and is more established as a good friend of Clark Kent. And they wanted to shake things up by making Jimmy a black man. Bringing on some little known character that is already black
wouldn't have gotten the same amount of publicity.
Plus The Flash had already established that Ron Troupe lived on Earth-1 in the episode "The Man in the Yellow Suit." And they probably didn't want to create an Earth-38 doppelganger of him.
Problem with John Henry is he isn't a journalist and doesn't have all that close a connection to Clark Kent. So how would Kara even interact with him?
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Their gonna have to recast the boys if this gets delayed too long
My guess is it will come out next year, not this year. Maybe a January release. They've lost too much film time unless they plan to really rush things. Which seems unwise but not unheard of.
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Casting the boys so relatively old from the start, I think they already had moving them from high school during the show in mind. And like Smallville you can have the boys pay "seniors in high school" for a surprisingly long time. But, like I said at the top, I imagine they planned the show being okay with, if not anticipating, the boys being young adults in college at some point. This is in contrast to something like Stranger Things where they cast very young because the point is to squeeze as much time out of them being actual children as possible and then end the show (which they are).
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I think the Black Lightning show as the easy point of reference given the age of Jeff’s kids in that. Granted that show benefited from having an older guy as BL.
By my rough calculation, Kara was trapped in the Phantom Zone for 24 years. So Clark was 24 when Kara arrived on Earth. The Supergirl show picks up 11 years later. So in season 1 Superman would be
around 35 years old. Supergirl is now in the 5th season so Clark would now be 40 years old assuming each season of Supergirl represents a year.
Okay I found out that Jefferson was born September 12, 1974, so Jefferson is 45 years old, 5 years older than Clark. So not a huge difference in age between Clark and Jefferson.
I just noticed that Superman's shield is the first to appear when they show the table and chairs. Nice. Showing some needed respect. Then it's the Bat and the Flash. Anyone noticed?
I liked Barry's expression when Superman talks to him (still can't understand what Clark says), but I'm not sure why Barry seems like a Superman fanboy in this universe. I know Gustin adores Supes, but the Flash first knew Supergirl... You mean he still likes Superman more? why? What has he done in this universe to get such respect?
He was impressed by Superman even back when the universes were split and they met the first time at the farm, and they have the memories of the combined universe as well as the prior one. So probably all the same things that made all the DEO people treat him with awe when he showed up the first time.
Prime Clark probably saved the world a bunch of times. That and yeah, Grant Gustin's inner Superman fan was probably leaking out, lol. The real question is why the heck were they all so exited by a table? By their reactions, you'd think Flash had bought them all tickets to Disneyworld.