iirc the first movie makes Marty look like his Dad, a schlub whose only friend is a weird old guy. He doesn’t push back against the teachers when they throw him out of the talent show.
Hardly a daredevil who never backs down from a challenge.
I think you’ve cracked it, Marty changes his past so that he grew up with a more assertive and confident father, so when the changes catch up to him in the second movie he suddenly has a new personality trait that he didn’t have before!
iirc the first movie makes Marty look like his Dad, a schlub whose only friend is a weird old guy. He doesn’t push back against the teachers when they throw him out of the talent show.
Hardly a daredevil who never backs down from a challenge.
I think you’ve cracked it, Marty changes his past so that he grew up with a more assertive and confident father, so when the changes catch up to him in the second movie he suddenly has a new personality trait that he didn’t have before!
You’re giving me credit for an idea I did not have.
But you are correct; it’s Lone Pine writ large.