"If she was interesting and doing cool things they wouldn't need to script it. "

 See, that's the problem. People watching TV aren't smart enough to enjoy people doing cool things. They want to see people get hurt, they want to see sex, and explosions, and that's about it. They don't see the value in anything that takes work.

 In the court case, she complains about THIS VERY THING--saying that she was initially contacted to be on the show just to highlight her lifestyle. But when the producers show up, they want her to do all number of stupid shit instead, and while they don't have a GUN to her head, they have a contract that she signed, that if she refuses to participate that they may CHARGE her for the unfinished film, at about  $115K per episode.  For someone who lives a subsistence lifestyle, it might as well be a gun to her head.

Some asshole producers are trying to goad her into hurting herself, and she's taking the only available option--suing them to end the contract .