This is complicated to describe because the societies of these extraterrestrial members of the Alliance are all somewhat different. They have differing temperaments and preferences which will determine how rigidly they control and enforce their citizens with respect to personal performance and participation in assigned duties and responsibilities. In their hierarchy, they have the leadership and a host of underlings with varying sublevels of leaders having more local control and more direct participation in things, if only as a supervisory duty.
We would say that the stories you describe in those screenplays are usually inspired through intuitive awareness of an extraterrestrial intrusion that is unwanted, and so the parallel you are describing is quite real, that it is possible to go elsewhere in time and interact with what is taking place, and that this can make things happen and may well backfire. So this is all a nonfiction on the level of the Earth and what is being done to it on a routine basis by interlopers. The manipulations being done of humanity are large in scale, and that is done to please the senior ranks among the extraterrestrial leadership. Those who must carry out their orders, who are the functionaries, must do as they are told, just as in human service to the military, for example. They may take great pride in their capabilities, in their level of responsibility as a cog in the wheel, so to speak, but there are not large numbers of their citizenry who take a turn at the helm, so to speak.
Just as with the majority of human beings living their lives vicariously through observing others on their screens, what is done to manipulate humanity by the extraterrestrials is recorded and can be viewed on their home planets for the amusement and entertainment of many others. So they get the entertainment value indirectly, just as people watching a screenplay have the enjoyment of it seeming to be real without having to go somewhere and create a real-life situation from scratch that could possibly match acts of greatness they can see others do with ease.
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