He doesn’t look nearly as different between '04 ESB and ROTJ as he does between ROTS and ROTJ.
'04 ESB literally uses the same makeup as ROTS, so I’m not sure what you’re getting at there.
His appearance changes in pretty much every film he’s in so it isn’t really too unbelievable that he would look different from '04 ESB to ROTJ.
There’s something of a 40 year jump between ROTS and ROTJ, and something of a few months to a few years between ESB and ROTJ, a jump like that is really odd.
At the end of the day you have to remember that the SE from '04 onwards was altered to be more familiar with the PT (like it or not, that’s not really relevant), so it makes sense to an extent to give the Emperor more of a ROTS look.
Though the first part of this statement is true, the second part is an incongruity.
Personally I think it’s a decent hybrid between ROTS and ROTJ and while the original may be more interesting, that doesn’t make the quality better.
Wouldn’t creating more interest in the audience lend the film to having a better quality than one that does not create that interest? This doesn’t make sense.
Nostalgia is obviously a very big factor, but while someone may personally prefer the aesthetic of model ship battles in ANH, it’s not really subjective that the ones in ROTS look objectively better, which they should, almost 30 years later.
Looks are purely subjective, there’s no objectivity about it.
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