Script theory dovetails pretty well with the basic theses of my book. Most scripts, major or minor, can be seen as versions of the archetypal plots we discussed in chapter 8. This parallel, between scripts and archetypal plots, works both for big overall life-scripts and for smaller scene-governing scripts, because scenes are plots in miniature. Scenes tend toward the same basic five-phase structure of complete narratives (the five-act pattern discussed in chapter 7).546
