Palpi was indeed the most interesting character in the prequels. Ian McDiarmid did a really great job in bringing at least a bit of the old trilogie-feeling back. What I absolutely dislike: http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2487/eisleybt5.jpg (source: Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope) Allthough there was lots of money behind that project, they decided to be a bit lazy sometimes. It´s just a small scene, but after watching the movie several times, it starts to catch your eye. You can see that there are just two stormtrooper-models, which have been mirrored. I can´t see why it should have been that hard to create to other models which move in another way than the others do instead of doing the same thing simultaneously. I also hate these poor animated droids. They look cheap, they move cheap and they weren´t important in any way. Why didn´t they decided to put a guy in a droids-costume?? But no, they just had to show up, how good they are in animating things and totally failed.