In a different way, it’s not unlike, watching Don Corleone come over to New York at the turn of the century, interspersed with watching Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone fully embrace the power of his family.
When it’s not that; these moments that we’re seeing in the past are pivotal in each character’s present.
Another way to do it is just have a monologue explaining the same thing, but it doesn’t have the impact of witnessing it.
And mine, too, and yet you have to be sparing with it or it becomes an additional storyline in a different timeline, and then we start playing connect the dots.