Sometimes people will step into a SCENE of your life and think they know the WHOLE STORY...
But the scene IS NOT the story. ✌and ❤

yeah. i know.
you might even be surprised to learn that many of us have already discovered that.

isn't it funny how some people, especially when they are young, kinda step into the scenes in the lives of the other people in world they arrive into?

excellent way to describe it -what is within your mind is greater than the whole planet -the right person will want to explore with an open mind.

But we can judge whether or not we want to keep reading/watching.

You ever go to a video store or bookstore or library and not see the movies categorized? History section, fiction, sci fi, horror, young adult, drama, how to, self help, magazines?Dewey decimal system? Google sea rch by genre or subject?

A "scene" that you judge is just figuring out what section of the store you're browsing.


Of course, we can go deeper into the "whole story" thing.
You ever read "The Seven Basic Plots?"
Where almost all stories fall into a limited number of categories?

And we can go even further and discuss readers/viewers.
You ever met someone that just spent all their time reading/watching movies?
Many get to the point where the story doesn't even matter. They don't get enjoyment out of the story. They simply see the influences. "This plot point is from Shakespeare. This plot point is from Plato. This story is just a rewrite of that story. This movie was influenced by movies x, y, z, through the lens of an 80's childhood based on this level of education."

Similar to how people hear accents, but it only triggers regions of influence.

Some people can judge a story by a scene. Sometimes scenes are extremely simplistic and part of a simplistic story. And what influenced or engendered that scene is easily disseminated. Not only what influenced that scene, but what are ultimately the consequences, outcomes, options, or what that scene leads to.
Also, and probably more importantly, how much effort/risk it's going to take to actually "change" the story away from its natural conclusion.

And many times people "in" a scene can't see that, or they have their own ideas of what influenced that scene, and where it's "supposed" to lead, what the story is/means filtered through an implicit bias, and will just argue and deny someone that sees it from a more objective outside perspective.

But then we're back to not really judging a story based on a scene so much as a desire to keep watching, or reading, or participating in an obvious story.

Depends on the scene.

One really bad scene, can ruin an
entire story.

I don't know how things were in generations before ours, but since the spread of mass multimedia (movies, mainly), the idea that life follows scripted story lines, that can be rapidly recognized, has become pervasive.

Lots of people think they know your whole character from one small experience with you, because they genuinely think that the stories commonly told, are honest and accurate.

But of course they aren't. Or at least, it's no were NEAR as easy to figure out which "script" you're in, than many people think.