Mock the danger

(1)Character development recognition.
(2) Create danger
(3) Set time limit on danger
(4) Approach limit
(5) Go to commercial
(6) Profit
(7) Resolve danger
(8) Rinse and Repeat

I wonder, if there is no real question of the outcome, why would there be any emotional involvement in a fantasy? Is it so easy for a person to be displaced into a fantasy? I would imagine that it has something to do with the ability to dream and experience situations before they happen and thus be able to solve relationships that can't be dealt with in real time. It is definitely an evolutionary advantage, but I doubt that distorting it for economic gain is an evolutionary advantage. I suppose knowing that the situation is pure emotional trickery is the same as dreaming the dream of a solution to emotional manipulation.

I personally dislike being reprogrammed to be a widget in somebody else's profit scheme or even political power scheme.