Is it terrifying?

That I finally understand the lure of reality TV?
It comes back to the movie business. We're so used to the story lines, the intimate cliches so well known by now, that reality TV is actually, well, refreshing.
I'll back up.
Alright, so there are approximately 41 different narratives in existence. Which means there are 41 different patterns any book, movie, or TV show can follow. At this point we're fairly used to the well-known narratives. The romantic comedies in which someone falls for another person, it's unrequited until the last second when the loved one realizes she/he too is in love with their best friend/doorman/waiter, etc. There's the stories in which there's a drastic change of heart, and the person changes for the better. There's the rags-to-riches, the crime drama in which the main character and the character we least expect to live survive, the horror movie in which the blonde and the stupid jock always die first. And now we've got the Seth Rogen, in which the endearingly dorky/unfit protagonist always gets the girl/achieves his mission in the end. Essentially, it's all been done, and as much as I love movies, it gets pretty predictable. In fact, my test of a movie's, or TV show's, merit is if I can guess the outcome before it ends. The guesswork is taking all the fun out of it, though. And then there's "reality TV".
The thing about this new aspect of television is that their is not script, no pre-determined narrative. It's people, who, yes, are more than likely scripted for maximal drama, but at least it's based off life. There's no necessary pattern. The boy can like a girl, yeah, but he doesn't have to change to end up with her - he just has to get her drunk off her ass and sleep with her. Welcome to The Real World. My personal favorite TV drama. And it's got all these new things - the most recent one was composed of people gay, straight, transexual, ex-military, dancers, college dropouts and so on. Reality TV hits its market based on the fact that its life, or the more interesting derivitve of it.
Who knows, perhaps I've been sitting at home too long watching all this "reality" instead of living it, but I think I finally get the pull of this new piece of television.