Yeah, well, I actually prefer Revill’s Palpatine over McDiarmid’s, so …
Dude has like 3 lines and the delivery sounds like some kind of Japanese saturday morning cartoon overdub. Come on. Ian McDiarmid is a world class actor of the stage and his performance carried the best parts of both ROTJ and the prequels. Now granted, McDiarmid in this scene kind of phoned his lines in, so if you’re only talking about that in particular, well, OK, I guess. Still think he’s far better, but whatever. But better than his entire performance? Give me a break. Your nostalgia goggles are so enormous I can see them from here.
I mean can you honestly imagine if McDiarmid had been there from the beginning and then for the Special Edition Lucas replaced him with an old woman in a chimpanzee mask voiced by a completely different guy? It would top Greedo shooting, CGI Jabba, Jedi Rocks, and Hayden ghost as the most ridiculous, bizarre, widely mocked and hated change of all. Let’s not kid ourselves here.