A producer spending his or her time desperately trying to figure what's happening is not going to be a friend in court. There are many definitions. Even the silliest lowball comedy should have a reason to be. Well, I've read plenty of scripts lacking theme and the experience is often equivalent to having had a big meal and still feeling hungry. Experience has told me that SOUL is missing.
Good writers slave over the creation of scenes, big and small.
It's not enough that the sensational climax is intact, or that the heavy-duty love scene or the ultimate confrontation hit the mark. All scenes need to be layered, well crafted, deeply thought out, and should emanate from a place of both inspiration and sound strategy. You'll find that writers are rarely in their offices unless they're actually writing something. We think that we should. It depresses us.