I'll try to explain but it's really hard to discuss time travel. And that's partly because it does require some suspension of disbelief. We may just agree to disagree if you don't buy the bs below
And also, why would Inverted Protagonist be worried about getting shot by Regular Protagonist? He already experienced that moment and knows he didn't get shot.
He's not worried. You've hit it on the head. He's already experienced it. So he knows 2 things:
-he didn't get shot
-he was shot at
So he shoots.
It's similar to what Quicksilver talkin bout the inversion chamber. Before you go in, you check to if you're entering in the chamber from the other side. You don't just run into the chamber because you wanna make sure that what you are about to do is what you will have actually done.
Also, Inverted Protagonist is not choreographing his actions. He's also reacting on the fly, because he will have always reacted on the fly.
Although Inverted Protagonist shoots and empties the gun, from Regular Protagonist' perspective, Inverted Protagonist is in fact loading the gun with the bullets that were very hap[ily resting in the bullet holed glass.
I don't know what you mean or how this affects "common" explanation" but I don't buy the "common explanation" either.
I guess a fairer question to ask would be, why are there bullets in the glass to begin with? And that is a mystery. It seems absurd but technically, when you're talking about a 4D chessmatch like what Future Protag is doing, these paradoxes show up. Hell, protag straight up challenges Pattinson at the end about this:
"Can we change if we do things differently"
"What's happened happened. Which is faith in the mechanics of the world.
It's not an excuse to do nothing."
"Fate?"
"Call it what you want."
"What do you call it?
"Reality."
Pattinson is walking to his death, and he knows it. That's even crazier than the bullets.
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