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Re: Matt's Age

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, twenty-eight sounded...young, to me? but I was desperately hoping for some kind of timeline that made sense. (or that i could SHOVE INTO SOME KIND OF SENSIBLE FRAMEWORK.) nevermind, i'll just keep guesstimating the boys as "very early thirties-ish" and karen as "slightly younger, depending"

(not even trying to be mean, just surprised, but: twenty-four? boggles but HOW would that even WORK. college. law school! SOME KIND OF NEBULOUS INTERNSHIP CRAMMED IN THERE?!?)

Re: Matt's Age

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, like:

Undergrad: 18-22
law-school: 22-25?
one-year internship: 26?
Start of season one: 27?
End of season one: 28?

And that's assuming he didn't take some kind of gap year between high-school and undergrad, or between undergrad and law school. It also ignores the fact that he was 9 when he was blinded, and then there was presumably a few years that passed after in which Jack died and Stick trained him, and then 20 years pass between then and Stick comes back.

So yeah... he's at least 30 in season 1.

Re: Matt's Age

[(Anonymous)]

See the school timeline is exactly why I thought he was younger. 4 years undergrad, 3 years law school, and apparently this is different but commonly people have internships while in law school, then get a real job right after. (My family is almost entirely lawyers.)

So standard would be undergrad 18-21, law school 22-24. For him to be 30+, he would have had to take time in there somewhere to do something else.

It's also possible after being blinded he got behind in school a year or so, or that he took five years for undergrad, but we still have like six years to account for. Gap years aren't a Thing in the US, but it's common for people to work a couple years before going to law school.