And it would be killer if Lucas’ career fluctuation was influential to other characters as well, like if Martin Stein has a love of old cars because of American Graffiti or Sara Lance if became such a hardcore badass because of Willow.
I particularly love the way the show has already introduced George Lucas’s career as a lynch pin for how some of its heroes have come to be who they are.
It’s certainly possible that Ray would have still figured out his path to engineering, and Nate to history, but things would have been different in many ways even with the same outcome.