SilverWook said:
Which one of us gets the gold medal and the Wheaties cereal box contract then? 😛
I see Yoda as always having had a mischievous side he had to keep in check being a proper Jedi master. He doesn’t have to be super serious all the time anymore. Being dead for 30 years is probably liberating. He could also be laughing because he knows the books aren’t even in the tree? Perhaps Frank Oz will chime in one of these days about it. He’s been fairly protective of Yoda.
And I think when the Yoda puppet is eventually seen in behind the scenes photos, it will become clear it’s the lighting that makes him look odd in certain shots.
I think he looks younger. I think it is a lead in to Ewan or Hayden making an appearance as Obi-wan or Anakin. definitely a better puppet than that horror in TPM.
And if the force is part of nature and Yoda is a force ghost, why should he not be able to affect things? That makes no logical sense with what we know of the force. Yoda triggering a lightning bolt to hit the tree seems like a very natural offshoot of his explanation of the force in TESB. I’m with Silverwook. I had no problems with it.