The contrast/white levels of the 2004 transfer bothers me way more than the color. Everything looks so dim and the sabers never have a white core.
Well at least they fixed about 60% of the screwed up shots in 2011.
They should’ve just gotten the ILM guys who did the PT to add lightsabers to the OT if they felt a need to redo it. Either that or just left it as it was in 1997. I can’t really understand how anyone could have looked at those shots, which are the most iconic thing about Star Wars, and decide that it wasn’t still a work in progress. The PT had no noticeable issues with lightsaber color consistency or brightness, and George seemed to be into the idea of consistency between the trilogies.