Sorry, MB...no kudoos from me.
You pick the damnedest pictures of Willie. What's he doing in this one? He's got that thousand-yard-stare so highly prized on show dogs at the Westminister Show!!!
No, wait, maybe he's about to sing the National Anthem?
Well, as long time visitors to our forums know, the guiding rule for the captures I pick for the montages is
character, Character, CHARACTER. The captures illustrate some important moment for a character that's either coming up (as in the case of the weekend montages), took place that day (as in the weekday montages), or happened along the course of their journey throughout the series (as in the farewell retrospective montages). Not every important moment is pretty (though I actually think Karlen looks pretty good in this weekend's capture
), nor would we want them to be because that would mean the stories being told are without conflict.
You also have to realize that the captures I have to choose from are taken completely at random from the episodes by a software program set to take captures at 6 second intervals over the course of however many episodes might be running on Sci-Fi in a given week. The results can range anywhere from 195 to 250 captures an episode, but there's still only a certain set of close-up shots per character to choose from for a weekend montage. And then factor in that only a certain type of close-up shot can be used so that each character's capture from a given week's worth of episiodes has the same relative dimensions, and that limits the choices even further.
However, if were you, I'd be more grateful for the captures I choose
not to use rather than the ones I do - say like this capture of Willie from episode #536 (coming up on Tuesday):
Even you must admit that the capture I chose to use for Willie is more flattering than that one.
the REALLY annoying thing is that Mad Man's headstone in the middle of the montage!!! What do we have to do? Sprinkle salt on his grave?
Well, your first tip off that we hadn't seen the last of Lang should have been when there was no farewell message in the montage containing the scenes of his death.