I like it but I still prefer McDiarmid as the Emperor in ESB. It would be awesome to see a “canon-friendly” edition with the good changes and fit more in line with the new canon without all the unnecessary scenes and continuity errors created by the Special Editions and Prequels. (Mostly the Prequels.)
i wish they’d reshot that dialogue during ROTJ’s principal photography, or even during phantom menace’s filming. palp’s ROTS makeup looked pretty crappy.
At the very least they should have tried to make him look like he did in Jedi, rather than the hot off the presses (or force lightning to the face) look of RotS, even if they had to go fully CG. Completely ignoring continuity by having him look the same between RotS and Empire ruins any argument or hope that his appearance in Jedi is the result of aging from the natural progression of time and also possibly gradual withering effects related to the Dark Side of the Force. Rather it just shows they had no taste or vision while making these changes. Heck this brings me back around to my feelings about how they handled Palpatine in RotS, with how long it was after Jedi and they still had the same actor, they were in the PERFECT position to age him convincingly with only light makeup touches necessary to show the toll the Dark Side can start to have. Palpatine never came off as cartoonish in Jedi, and the actor himself ended up aging such that he looked increasingly recognizable to his original appearance. To purposely disfigure him in the goofiest way for the purpose of hamfisting in “continuity” was unnecessary as obviously just a little makeup work would have been enough to bridge the gap by hinting at advanced aging / dark preservation, but the chance to capitalize on then-relevant real life political news of a politician who was disfigured by an attack with acid which ended up actually helping his agenda… I guess it was just too much for our “innovative” pal Lucas to pass up.