10 Dumbest Things In The Star Wars: Prequel Trilogy

10. Replacing Practical Yoda

There are certainly those out there who wouldn't call themselves the biggest fans of the younger version of Master Yoda who popped up in the first Star Wars prequel entry.

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However, the second George Lucas decided to go back and digitally mess with the new practical puppet he'd introduced in Episode I - The Phantom Menace in 2011, that once-jarring, slightly less wrinkly creation didn't seem quite as dreadful anymore.

It's not hard to see what the iconic filmmaker was going for. He wanted his prequels to look a little more consistent, with Yoda ultimately going fully CGI in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. But all making the Master a fully digital character did, was set the stage for a ridiculous flipping green blur swinging around a laser-dagger a few times.

Replacing the wonderful puppet fans had grown to love in those prior Episodes was a dumb call to begin with - Yoda was about 900 years old in Return of the Jedi, would a couple of decades have really altered his look that much?

Choosing to then completely scrap that practical look in favour of a far less realistic CGI version was idiotic, and it wasn't exactly all that surprising to see the return of a puppet when the legendary Jedi popped back up in The Last Jedi many years later.

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