Yes, we are watching a series of scripted interactions between the white hats and black hats. But, there isn’t a single script writer, each side is writing their own scripts. And, both sides are constantly war gaming to decide when a rewrite is necessary.

All of this war gaming, planning, the moves and countermoves make this epic conflict of good versus evil feel like a movie, but it’s not. It is a high stakes game that evil knows they are losing so they prolong the game, hoping to force the good guys into making a fatal error.

The movie analogy is useful to help us understand how highly scripted these moves and countermoves are, that’s all.