I think that its important to view things within the context of the thing. This sounds weird, but what I mean is the suspension of disbelief and how, without that, a lot of fiction is at best meaningless and at worst stories about people being monstrous. The force is a power that flows through everything and can be used by people fluent in the ways of the force to do cool shit. Out of the world created by the people who created it, Jedi are just space wizards. Removing context removes the meaning behind a lot of material.
I was planning to just talk about stories out of context because it was fun, but it struck me as interesting how necessary the suspension of disbelief is and how bad it is when a movie/book/media doesn't hook you in. It seems fake. Its one of the reasons I don't like reading fantasy-type fiction most of the time. A lot of it seems like bullshit decorating poorly conceived plot devices. This is why I love it when a world drags me in (The Hobbit was the first book that did this for me). That being said, just for fun let us look at a couple movies/books/video games out of context.
1: A thief uses an enslaved magical being he stole from a ruin to try and get into a princesses' pants.
2: A mentally damaged former soldier lies about his military past and helps an eco-terrorist group escape from a major city after blowing up a power plant.
3: Two buddies Lie about their identities and trick emotionally vulnerable women into having sex with them.
4: A rich man from a good background assaults disenfranchised poor people to work out aggression from a childhood trauma.
5: A woman forsakes her family, her voice, and subjects herself to torture to try to fuck a stranger.
Answers: Aladdin, Final Fantasy VII, Wedding Crashers, Batman, The Little Mermaid
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