No need to quibble over the precise level of distraction. Maybe less than Leia being blonde and more than her brunette hair being slightly darker. I still don’t see the validity of the reason for the aesthetic choice that is noticeable.
They probably figured most people wouldn’t care, which is almost certainly true.
As the creature designer said: “I remember saying to Rian [Johnson] that if we were going to do it, we couldn’t make him too much of a ghost because it would deny everybody the joy of seeing him solid and real.”
Sounds like they thought people would care. If you mean they thought most people would like it or at least not be bothered by it, that is clear. If most people didn’t care, as you suggest, then it wasn’t a terribly successful choice. A lot of things in the movie are like that. This was quite a minor thing.
My post was in response to your question of why risk a noticeable/distracting change. Because most people wouldn’t care that it’s different.
You answer a question I’m not asking. I commented that I found it distracting but that wasn’t a question.
It seemed like you were wondering why they did it if it was distracting.
Why choose make the change in the first place? A lot of reasons that are more important than whether or not it’s distracting to an extremely small subset of the audience.
Well the creature designer says a ghostly Yoda “would deny everybody the joy of seeing him solid and real.”
As I said, I don’t see the merit there. I guess you do?
Not a major thing but I thought the creative choice was an odd one and a more ghostly Yoda would not have taken joy away nor did a more solid Yoda add positively to the experience.
It’s the most substantial scene a force ghost has ever been in. It’s not just about the joy of seeing Yoda tangibly again. It’s about imbuing the character and the emotions of the scene with more tangibility. He still looks ghostly. Again, for an extremely small number of the audience, he’s not ghostly enough and that’s distracting. But for most of the audience, the thinking here is a more solid Yoda would add more weight to the scene. Makes perfect sense to me.
I think we agree for the first time. Hooray! In my view more solid ghost Yoda is not more distracting than ghost Obi-Wan walking through a forest avoiding trees and casually sitting down on a rock.