Too bad, the SFX of the hatch is pretty invisible but the shirt was a bit jarring since I wasn't expecting it (especially since the "fix" is wrong in the first place). I'm not sure what it is, but I also thought "bring my shuttle" was a bit tinny and flat, maybe because it's a 2.0 mix patched into a 5.1, but it definitely didn't have the oomph I remembered. But oh well.
Anyway, this is an amazing, amazing piece of work. I haven't enjoyed watching ESB this much since 1997. The blends for the most part are first rate--I was scrutinizing the edges so I could usually tell how Adywan did it, (there's a lot of matte painting scans in Cloud City and Lando's announcement starts as the 2004 release and then blends into the GOUT pretty smoothly), but if I wasn't looking I doubt I would have noticed, it's that good. I do understand what he means when he says an HD version is out of the question--you can see some wobble and grain and detail smearing in the patches if you look closely, you get away with it in SD but it would stand out a lot if the surrounding material was native HD. Too bad. The transfer is so sharp that if you uprezed this for your HD set it would still look awesome though, it's obviously not as good as the native HD broadcasts but it gives them a good run for their money IMO, and it has no retarded coloring to boot. The official transfers look really soft when you stand them up next to Adywan's HD downconversions, and this one is exceptional once again.
Again, thanks Adywan--this thing is quite astounding. I was amazed at how well the footage all blended together and how great the image looks, I'll bet if you told people this was a new HD transfer from an original 35mm source people would believe you.