twooffour said:

It might be because the Vader scene in ROTS is actually a pretty damn good (up until the NOOOO, that is - all drama and impact flushed down the toilet in one moment), imo.

I thought that scene was ridiculous and campy from the start to finish. The guy is practically still smouldering from being burned in lava, and we slap a leather suit and helmet on him and in a matter of minutes he is as good as new and walking around again. Stupid.

Contrast that to much more realistic, far better paced, and less clumsy OT scenes such as Luke in the bacta tank after being rescued on Hoth, or the scene where the medical droid is calibrating Luke's prosthetic hand. But 20 years prior a triple amputee with life threatening burns just has to have a bunch of robots pop a suit on him in an overly campy scene, and he is all better. That scene is an excellent example of everything that is wrong with those horrible films. That said, in all of its ridiculousness, it is one of the better scenes in the entirety of the PT.