I’m seeing a lot of people on this subreddit, mainly in the post-episode discussion thread, acting as though Aaron Paul did a good job reprising his role as Jesse. To be completely honest, it was very, very bad. Immersion shatteringly bad.

The voice was completely off. I know the general excuse for this will be that he’s aged, and that’s fine. But how is it that the El Camino flashback was acted out way better? His voice, while still having naturally an older feel to it, was more true to how Jesse talks. The “yo” was not any good either and did not help.

The speed at which he speaks is also just completely off. Why is he so slow? He sounds so much more confident and intimidating than he does in BB’s S2 EP8, so much so that it literally sounds like El Camino Jesse.

I’ve noticed that Dean Norris, Steven Quezada and Bryan Cranston did not have these issues. It seems to be an Aaron Paul problem.

This isn’t meant to be a post with the purpose of just shitting on Paul. I’m posting this just so people call it what it is. And what it is was lacklustre. They could have maybe used some post production effects for his voice. Maybe tell him to speak quicker, and without the whole mature man gruff.