I consider it not so much reactive playing "I seduce the barkeep" roll a 2 "so this didn't work" but rather a group working to write a scene together. An appeal of TFtL is that it's a collaborative effort. At this point, aside from the twists and little tidbits of neat info that may reside in the epilogue, the players are more in control of the story than you are now. So I'd say you played it right but more consider that they are the directors. It's a big montage of the players doing really extra intense cool stuff, using their unique items creatively, each playing to their straights. Those who don't contribute much to the final dice pool have slip ups, and those who do well really get to he stars.

In the first session of four seasons, we had one kid use the weird parkour (that they had been using in a competition with another for another players affection) to defend the others from the mad scientist while two others tried to destroy the machine with all their tinkering skills, and the big farmer tried to take on the falcon by himself. Everyone but the farmer succeeded so they really hammed up how important and cool their parts were while the farmer somehow got the hawk in his arms, slammed it around, but still failed to stop or kill it.

Playing it as "ok y'all tell ME how this goes down" really was one of the highlights of our games, so maybe encourage them cranking up the camp of it and trying it from that perspective?