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I disagree with you about Story. Taking "Columbo" as an example the viewer knew at the start who the killer was and the fun was in watching Lt. Columbo unravel their alibi and prove that they were the killer. Granted that Columbo is an odd twist on the Mystery genre in that we know who did it from the start, but it's basically a quest story format. The hero (Columbo) has to figure out who did it and be able to prove it (his goal). Aristotle wrote that a story has to have a Beginning, a Middle, and an End. Granted in real life things aren't tidy, but in fiction while we know that the hero will either succeed or fail but even though their story is fiction we want to be able to suspend disbelief and be entertained. Words have a magic all their own. Even today we ask "how do you spell that" if we don't recognize a word/name.
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