imperialscum said:

Bingowings said:

I know Michael Pennington can act but he is comically awful in ROTJ (he looked like he was going to pee his pants all the time Vader was onscreen).

That's not awful, that was exactly what he had to act. The whole purpose of Vader's arrival was to "put him back on schedule" and Vader had a particular reputation by that time. The point of the first scene is to establish Emperor's reputation through Vader's reputation. Pennington did a great job in that scene. He acted a bit unconcerned when only Vader was in the picture, but when Vader mentioned Emperor he did almost pee himself.

That's how the five year olds in the audience are meant to act.

The officer class have always been disdainful or cautious around Vader but never comedicaly cowardly.

Originally Jejerrod was meant to be a rival for Vader to spar against (a Tarkin on the up) but in the final version he is a joke.

It might have paid off if it was shown to be an act and he double crossed Vader who was now seen as a bit of a pathetic choke-joke (there are hints of this in the deleted scenes) but as it stands his performance is one I would remove if I were doing an SE not Seb Shaw's ghost.

You don't put a guy like that in charge of getting a space station completed 10 times faster than the last time.