I would have relived that quite a few times before resetting. You can have about 3 or 4 complete lifetimes... or a lot of short ones before you'd eventually have to move on, but that doesnt mean you can't live it for what it's worth. While you can...
shareYeah, I'm not sure why you can't use the portal as a voluntary Groundhog Day device. I guess yellow card man is there to address that, though.
shareYeah she's literally right there for him when he travels back, and she didn't push him away when he was some dirty, crazy stranger, so it's not like it would be hard to get back in her life.
shareKeep in mind he ages naturally in the past. If he stayed 25 years and came back to 2016, he'd have been in his 50s.
So if he goes back 6 times and stays three years each time, he'll have aged 18 years by the end of the 6th time, whether he stays in the past or comes back.
Solid point, Duck of Prey.
After a few times, Sadie is going to see him as some creepy older guy, rather than a potential romantic interest.
But I wonder what would have happened if Jake had gone back and not changed anything, and just met Sadie married and lived the rest of his years form 1960 forward.
I know the yellow card man said "she always dies." But he's talking about his daughter, who he is trying to change the past by saving. BUT, in the real history, Sadie doesn't die. She lives to 2016 naturally. Just because YCM can't change the past to prevent his daughter's death, I don't know why that would mean Sadie is doomed to death if they don't get anywhere near the Kennedy/Oswald shooting. Heck, Sadie dying IS changing the past, since that's not what happened in the original history.