Indeed, Emperor was in '04.
But let’s be honest, the original Emperor in ESB is absolutely shocking, and not in a good way.
But at least it is interesting. They did such a shitty job shoehorning McDiarmid in there. If they went through trouble to do proper makeup and costume, that plus perhaps the windows on Bespin and a better executed re-done wampa sequence could have been a really good Director’s Cut (which the '97 version of Empire is more so than the other two, which are much more radical), if the original were available to watch beside it.
I think Adywan gave us the best of both worlds. Shame he could do it better than the professionals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNnYpODghl4
Never watched Adywan’s versions. This is more or less what I said above, though I wish the skin were darkened/greener/yellower as it was both in the original ESB and in ROTJ.
EDIT: added second quote rather than double post