plurmonger said:
It moves at a quick pace, but it never loses its rhythm, and I didn't find any glaring plot holes (just one line toward the end that doesn't make much sense without some deleted context). The only complaints I have are that, at times, it moves just a little too quickly, and some of the characters are (unsurprisingly) thinly drawn. It's not a problem for everybody (The story doesn't suffer for cutting down Walt Jr's screentime, for instance), but Jessie really could have used more scenes to flesh out his relationship with Walt and give the conclusion to his story more emotional payoff. The best advice I can give to anyone who's planning to watch this is to let go of any preconceived notions of what must be included in a BB fanedit.
I thought it was very done. It does feel like there are major time skips, which works well for this edit, but is usually done in a more obvious way in a feature film. This does produce some small plot holes in terms of character motivations.
MILD SPOILERS:
1) Without seeing all the time that Walter is absent without good reason, we don't quite see why Skyler would suspect he is having an affair or that something else was up.
2) Without seeing Walt's occasional impulsiveness (or Jesse's drug use) we don't see why Gus would want to have them killed at all.
3) Without seeing Walt mentoring Jesse we don't see how they developed such deep loyalties to each other, which makes the betrayals at the end more heart-wrenching.
4) Without Walt's manipulations and Todd's very bad deed, we don't see why Jesse would be so angry when parting ways with Walt and so quick to flip on him once in police custody.
That said, again I think this fanedit is excellent for what it is trying to do. I wish it had a few more of the best lines included. This edit is geared towards highlighting Walt's family relationships as he descends. It is emotionally tough to watch this though without the action scenes or comic relief.
I think at least 2 other TV-movie fanedits could be make from the series. A fanedit focusing on
Jesse's development - as he sees his relationships destroyed as he moves up from small-time to big-time - would have Walt play the catalyst of his changes (or even make Jesse's and Walt's screen-time more equal telling parallel stories).
Another TV-to-movie fanedit could be
the action cut - where personal relationships just are background to the small-time cooks getting in over their heads. Crazy stuff keeps happening to them (and the DEA agent trying to catch up to them).
addiesin said:
Sorry I don't know any Breaking Bad quotes...
Let's cook.