Spoilers "Superman & Lois" Season 2

I DID NOT miss Ruby Rose one bit. I'm sorry, but there were times when she came off as a bit too stiff for my tastes. And this has nothing to do with my sudden disinterest in "Superman & Lois", "Legends of Tomorrow" and "The Flash". I haven't even thought about Season Three of "Stargirl" lately. And the only DC show I've been keeping up with is "Titans". It's flawed, but I like its style. As for the Marvel shows, I was never able to maintain interest in the shows from HULU. The Marvel Netflix proved to be a mixed affair for me. I know a lot of people loved "Daredevil". I didn't. Okay, I liked Season One. But I disliked the other two seasons. I was not impressed by Season Two of "The Punisher", even though I enjoyed the first season. I liked both seasons of "Luke Cage" and "Iron Fist", but I didn't like how their second seasons ended. "Jessica Jones" had a pretty good first season, but it dragged. I didn't like its second season, but I did enjoy its third season.

I think the problem for me is genre exhaustion. I'm feeling the same about comic book movies, as well.

 

Yeah, Batwoman was bad from the get go. Replacing Ruby wasn’t going to fix it.

 

I had enjoyed Season Two of "Batwoman" with Javica Leslie. I just couldn't drum up the interest to finish Season Three. Actually, I first started having problems with the Arrowverse with Seasons Four, Six, Seven and the second half of Eight for "Arrow".

Everyone kept praising "Superman & Lois" to the sky. Yet, I had lost interest in the series after five to six episodes of Season Two.

 

Oh. My. Gaaaaaaahhhhhd!

 

Any updates on who's replacing Jonathan Kent?

 

Krypto. Myxpl.... whatever, turns him into Kryptro

 

Yeah, good point, if he was fired for not showing up to the studio after hiatus (probably for pre-pro, costume fittings and rehearsals and things, not actual shooting), they'd need to do the recast pretty quickly to not derail the entire schedule.

 

Has he gone missing? Did the parents contact Smallville PD? We talking something supernatural or unearthly? Have they looked on Bizarro World?

 

https://screenrant.com/superman-lois-season-3-jordan-elsass-exit-response/

 

Yes I'm aware the actor has left the show. He might be replaced and the character recast. As for Jonathan Kent, it's unlikely he will be replaced. The Kents won't wake up one morning to discover someone new claiming to be their son. Sure, its a comic book show and such things aren't unheard of, but I doubt that's the route they'll go.

 

The way I'd do it: Jonathan comes back from a vacation sporting an entirely new look, different hairstyle, maybe a beard, new wardrobe. The family says "Wow, you look like a completely different person." And that's the only way they address it.

(My first thought was to have Jonathan say "I feel like a new man," but She-Hulk just did that joke last week.)

 

Recast him and just say we're in yet another universe where the only difference is what Jordan looks like.

 

Replace him with Clark’s cousin from Midvale. That should be a big hit.

 

Do a lot of high schoolers have beards? I guess with the old man's five o'clock shadow it's not too much of a stretch.

Have we become more sensitive to this stuff now? Seems like it didn't used to be too big of a deal to recast roles

 

We’ll there is a faction that demands an explanation for every change great or small.

 

A wizard did it.

 

Well, sometimes yes, sometimes no. Even just keeping it within Superman-based shows, on the one hand, Lois & Clark recast Jimmy Olsen with a completely dissimilar actor without bothering to explain it, yet on the other hand, Superboy used an elaborate plastic-surgery plot to explain replacing their dreadful first-season Lex Luthor with the much more talented Sherman Howard -- while simultaneously recasting Superboy himself without explanation! (I guess that was because first-season Lex was a college student and Howard was much older, so it was harder to brush off the change.) And soap operas using plastic surgery to explain recastings was a perennial cliche right up there with amnesia plots.

By the same token, some shows today come up with in-story excuses for recastings (e.g. Black Lightning), while others just go ahead and recast (e.g. the MCU with Bruce, Rhodey, etc.).

 

I guess if we're just spitballin' here maybe casting a little beefier actor (following a growth spurt) might be interesting as a contrast. He's supposed to be a football player, right? Having a larger brother playing against the other who is actually the strongest could help sell the conflict we've seen the character struggle with.

 

And sometime they just do a voice over "The role of Joey Buchanan is now being played by Nathan Fillon"

 

Right. It's always been the case that sometimes they come up with convoluted explanations for a recasting and sometimes they don't. That's not something that's different now than it was in the past.