{"id":130659,"date":"2016-05-14T16:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T22:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/14\/alas-no-more-regular-snart-snark-on-legends-of-tomorrow.html"},"modified":"2016-05-16T16:44:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T22:44:48","slug":"alas-no-more-regular-snart-snark-on-legends-of-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/14\/alas-no-more-regular-snart-snark-on-legends-of-tomorrow.html","title":{"rendered":"Alas, no more regular Snart snark on &quot;Legends of Tomorrow&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read some other articles about this last night (after we watched the episode in question), as Wentworth Miller &#8212; by far the most enjoyable cast member on <i>DC&#39;s Legends of Tomorrow<\/i> &#8212; bows out from the series as a regular, but with a contract that lets him appear on the show in the future, as well as on <i>The Flash,<\/i> <i>Arrow,<\/i> etc.<\/p>\n<p>Which is a crying shame, as I found him the most compelling reason to watch the series, and the character most detached from the irksome Hawkdrama. Self-centered, master of the dry quip, always on the look-out for a score, but smart and capable of seeing the bigger picture &#8212; and even of being not-quite-so villainous as he pretended to be.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad we&#39;ll continue to see him in the Berlantiverse, but sorry it will be only on occasion.<\/p>\n<p>[Article does have spoilers for the most recent DCLoT episode.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/article\/wentworth-miller-will-no-longer-be-a-series-regular-on-legends-of-tomorrow'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/L-Z7Xk66sdzEhk46sX7h-m6RSx4UI4Hoqr788V_53RGbMA3jqykENybDzZ5lQ3b_A_ns3MlktppMboxWeLzF2LBL8EgI2h4udJfWCB6Jxyt_QXcuulBzhcOGULLbjSg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/article\/wentworth-miller-will-no-longer-be-a-series-regular-on-legends-of-tomorrow'>Wentworth Miller Will No Longer Be a Series Regular on &#8220;Legends of Tomorrow&#8221;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWentworth Miller Will No Longer Be a Series Regular on &#8220;Legends of Tomorrow&#8221; &#8211; While Miller won&#8217;t be a &#8220;Legends&#8221; regular, he&#8217;ll make recurring appearances on the series, in addition to &#8220;The Flash.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/BMBTfqYf7bj'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read some other articles about this last night (after we watched the episode in question), as Wentworth Miller &#8212; by far the most enjoyable cast member on DC&#39;s Legends of Tomorrow &#8212; bows out from the series as a regular, but with a contract that lets him appear on the show in the future, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/14\/alas-no-more-regular-snart-snark-on-legends-of-tomorrow.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alas, no more regular Snart snark on &quot;Legends of Tomorrow&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131033,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/09\/if-we-cant-have-more-captain-jack-ill-settle-for-more-malcolm-merlyn.html","url_meta":{"origin":130659,"position":0},"title":"If we can&#039;t have more Captain Jack, I&#039;ll settle for more Malcolm Merlyn","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 9-Jul-16 4:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"John Barrowman gets a cross-CW-DC-hero contract. 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