bionicbob said:
Minor nitpick, while the movie picks up instantly from the final episode, in real life much time has passed and most of the actors look older and heavier (especially Todd)... though this is an issue with Better Call Saul too... so it might take a few beats for some to accept this and go with the flow of the narrative.
Bionicbob, I'm with you, I don't think this is a bad thing to mention. It's so noticeable with some characters that it took me out of the story. That's the issue. It's not only Todd, Mike looks thinner and older, Pete looks anorexic (though you could write that off as him being even more cracked-out), and Jesse looks ...wider in the face? I mean, aging is unavoidable, but Breaking Bad is the biggest thing to happen to all these guys. As a director/producer, I would've liked to have seen them control what they could control and get back in the shape they were in for the series. Actors do this all the time when they make movie sequels, it's pretty par-for-the-course.
One thing nobody has mentioned about this is that it fills in some of the time gaps in the final season of BB. There were things we never got to see, and I was aware of kind of moving from momentous moment to momentous moment a bit quicker than I would've liked as BB wrapped up. I very much appreciated the flashbacks in this, despite the body size/aging not matching perfectly.
For me, this was a nice way to finally be able to say goodbye to the series. Not "necessary", but very welcome. Now maybe people will stop bugging Aaron Paul for another season.