10 Times Star Wars Gave Fans EXACTLY What They Wanted

2. The Yoda Puppet Returns

Though CGI most definitely helped add a new level of spectacle to his bombastic Prequel Trilogy, the use of the technology to completely reimagine a certain wise old space wizard didn't go down well with every Star Wars fans around the time of Attack of the Clones.

But that still didn't stop George Lucas from doubling-down on his digitally-rendered Yoda for his Revenge of the Sith follow-up and even entirely lacing his CGI creation into The Phantom Menace back in 2011. With Lucas wanting to depict the all-powerful Jedi very much strutting his flipping stuff with a lightsaber over the course of the Prequels, it's not hard to see why he relied on his new favourite toy for the most part instead of the once-game-changing puppetry work used to bring Yoda to life previously.

However, sensing that audiences would likely connect more with that Frank Oz-voiced-and-controlled entity than the rather soulless digital variant, Rian Johnson made the inspired call to bring the legendary puppeteer back on board when the time came for Yoda's Force Ghost to appear before Luke in The Last Jedi.

The results clicked and then some, giving The Last Jedi one of its finest exchanges in the process.