Thinking about it, honestly... it feels a bit like Clark started taking on more of what had been Barry's role in the JLA and in turn also some of his personality in the wake of COIE. Which makes a sort of sense if in a very funny way considering that they're both Midwestern country boys who move to a big city and start dating a reporter and hide their superhero identity by acting bumbling and boring and go to truly ridiculously extreme lengths to keep even the people they love most in the dark about it including gaslighting them and whose narratives often circle around themes of loneliness and alienation and having a fundamentally different view of the world as well as the struggle of having unimaginable amounts of power and the repercussions thereof. (takes a breath) This gets even funnier when you learn that later on they changed Barry's hometown from being in Ohio to being in Kansas.
