iamsometal said:
The color correction in 2.5 is honestly my only minor issue with this version.
With a "warts and all" restoration, you get warts. Star Wars is the only film where Harmy was working with a pretty dead-on accurate theatrical color reference. With the others (particularly Empire), he's a little freer to even out inconsistent skin tones, because he doesn't have a definitive color reference telling him he shouldn't.
There is also some level of suck that's always going to be left over from any Special Edition source material--to match colors better than what we have now, you'd need original film elements (IMO DrDre's example demonstrates that trying to exactly match the Blu-ray to theatrical colors can end up blowing out detail, so you may want to bump the gamma to compensate, but then you lose color accuracy, and so on). Not that that isn't coming some day, but Harmy may not be the one to do it. It's not "Despecialized" if it wasn't "Special" to begin with.