Tarkin was completely unnecessary and a real blemish on the film. Leia could have been done with a hologram, but honestly I didn’t mind her at all.
Is your opinion swayed by the fact that you didnt care for the CGI likeness or because you genuinly feel he wasnt needed to connect the two movies? Me personally, I kind of liked it. I think its neat that we have the abilioty to bring someone back from the dead. Granted, they shouldve used different lighting and perhaps even applied some type of blur filter to not make it quite so obvious. But dont you think we needed to see a bit of Tarkin seeing as that he was assigned to the DS?