Not only is Ian's performance kind of blah and phoned-in, but so is the look of the shot. It's way too brightly lit, and the whole job looks as if it was done in 5 minutes on someone's lunch break. They could've at least matched the look of the previous hologram effect a bit better.

The original surpasses it in every way-- if I never knew what the image was, I would still think it looks pretty cool. I don't care if it was a woman/chimp-- it's a mysterious image attached to a mysterious voice that didn't need to be changed.