Anchorhead said:

Poorly shaped puppet not withstanding, to me the CGI version still looks like what it is - a drawing.

We'll have to agree to disagree, then.

The shadows aren't consistent with the puppet or the world it existed in, the texture is softened, and the depth has been erased. The cartoon version looks flat.

I'll give you that the texture has been softened, but that's because that scene has a good amount of DNR. I hope they have a new transfer for the 3D release.

For the record, I know I'm trying to make my point to an apologist.

Apologist of what? As I said, I like both methods. It only depends of the end purpose.

Frink summed it up perfectly. Had they paid more attention to the Empire puppet and duplicated it correctly, this would be a non issue.

I agree (at least in TPM, that is).