R2 and 3PO on Tatooine - gah, more "watercolor filter" DNR there. R2 looks he was detailed by Claude Monet. (Again, as You_Too said in Harmy's thread, not sure if the grain removal was always this egregious but it's just more apparent now.)

And look at how they took the blue out of the hatch, it looks like all of the dark areas in the impact crater and tracks are the same odd shade of dark grayish mauve. In fact, I can see that same shade in a lot of the shadow details. (It's been discussed inside out for the past 7+ years, but I ask yet again, what's with all the weird colors in the highlights and shadows in the '04/'11 transfer? Dark areas that looked black or neutral before suddenly look blue, purple, etc...)

It still makes my head spin - why is it that some shots look amazing, while others look like absolute rubbish? Why do some shots seem to have intact grain structure, full dynamic range and accurate color values, while others have severe degraining artifacts, crushed blacks, clipped whites, and bizarre hues that seem like they don't exist on this planet? How is it that the exact same transfer can go from scenes like "Look sir, droids" and "I suppose you're programmed for etiquette and protocol" that make me feel almost like I'm looking at the original negative, to wax-sculpture droids, purple shadows, lobster-men and a Sandcrawler interior with featureless black voids that looks like it's getting swallowed up by the Nothing?