Sleambean said:

The Emperor doesn't really articulate well in Episode III, he just mumbled and somehow his voice was clear, and I always thought it was that way because he just underwent lightning surgery. By RotJ he apparently got used to it and speaks just fine.

In ESB though, with the DVD hologram, he looks just like Episode III Palpy. Adywan corrected this by using the RotJ face and the normal mouth, but that doesn't help his speaking problems. What, did he go to a speech therapist between V and VI?

Palpatine sounds different in Episode III because Lucas and Burtt went full bore mental, Colonel Kurtz style... any "in universe" explanations for the differences are just for giggles.

From the tests I've seen Adywan's EpV Emperor is gonna look and sound just like ROTJ Palpatine, which is the moment I'm looking forward to more than any other part of ESB:R (I'm expecting Mount-Everest sized goosebumps ;-) ).

(I guess ROTS:R Palpatine will be like ROTJ Palpatine too).

Darth Lars said:

I wish that I could filter this thread to only contain posts by AdyWan, so that I did not have to wade through all the chatter about unrelated stuff ...

The ESB:R facebook is more in that vein.