this is a great way to describe it it answers a question i’ve been asking myself lately as i’m watching too much tv during the pandemic why does it take me several viewings of the same episode of a show before i understand the pointwhat we’re supposed to be thinking as the audience  i realized i don’t always catch on right away not because i’m dumb but because i’m too focused on the writing or how i would’ve acted a scene or the costume design etc i’m too busy taking myself out of the story to actually pay attention to the story my attention is being scattered in a million different directions so this explanation really resonates with me