"... I often give myself very good advice, but I very seldom fallow it"
You can always see things from outside the box it's all so clear, all the players are in their places, the heroine the hero, star crossed lovers and the poor comical relief. It all plays out so clear on the stages before us and we can predict and assume everything. It's all so clear all laid out before you like the screen play of a dream.
You can say what ever you want because well you already know the lines of the next act, you the director in the audience with no lights on you with all the notes in your hand, so of course you can see it all and tell the actors how to fix or continue with the play.
When the tables turn though, and you're the one on stage playing your part, the lights are in your eyes, you can barely see past the end of the stage. All consumed with the part, playing like you are the all important lead when really you are just the sap of a comic relief.
So ya I can also talk big game when I see someone and doing things and acting in ways that pry will wind up just burning them in the ass later. I'm in the audience, there is no real emotional investment on my part, maybe some entertainment value or residual empathy from having some partial attachment to a player character.
When it's finally your story being told and you can't ever really see anything coming your way till it's fully in your face. Then it's there you think you have a pulse on the script, you think you got a feeling for your roll, but of course there is always a twist, ahhh that fucking twist.
Needless to say, today I feel a bit heavy and that twist has come down the line, and now I'm going to have to improve my way through the next act to try and keep up. The script is out the door my lovelies. Oh what will happen next? Who knows?