It’s really no more complicated than someone saying, “look, every story ever written has a figure, and that figure has to do something, then he does something, and then he’s done doing it.”

Only we have to throw in the post hoc christ figure anytime anyone suffers/sacrifices/saves/dies, and use the word denouement because the working class doesn’t understand it.

if I got what you are saying, cause it cann be a bit hard to understand.

I hate it when people say “you can’t be original, since everything has been done before” (about video games), or when people say that” there are only 10 or so stories”, and that “every story made is essentially 1 of those 10″.
they really know shit when they say stuff like that,
that ’story’ isn’t the “essence” of the story,
it’s just the basic plot,
the “feeling” (or whatever I’m supposed to call it) is the essence of the story.

but I dunno, it seemed to me like you meant kind of the same thing,
at least it’s what I understand from the first part of what you were saying.