The whole idea of fanediting is for the editor to make something they feel is subjectively better than the original/other edits, or at least interesting enough to be worth making. No one would bother making an edit that they believed someone else had already completely nailed, so there’s always some implied criticism there, but I think we all understand that this is the case because taste in edits is extremely subjective. For instance, I don’t work on my personal edits of the saga movies because I think HAL9000, NFBisms, Siliconmaster etc. are trash editors or something; it’s because there’s always a few things in any edit that I’d like to see done differently, or ideas I’ve had that I’d like to try out.

I got the impression that EddieDean’s not criticising the individual skill of other faneditors, but rather the concept of turning TCW into a series of full-length movies in general. This doesn’t mean edits that do try to do that suck; just that EddieDean thinks there’s potential in a different format. Re: “forcing yourself” to adhere to ~two hours; I only read this as being in contrast to his plan to release edits of much more variable lengths. Going for a “film format” implies that the edits would be all be approximately feature-film length, and it’d be odd if one of the “films” in a TCW film edit series was suddenly 30 mins long instead of 90 or 120, right?