Board Thread:The Flash episode discussions/@comment-9346948-20150520010255/@comment-26394850-20150521142710

Adam takach wrote: No I Don't Thing So I Don't Thing That The Arrow Would Die Without The Flash And The Flash Would Never Exist If His Mother Wouldn't die in The Original Time Line The Time Line With Barry Mother Alive The Flash Have Been Create But in 2024 When The Original Harrison Wells Create The Particle accelerator Than The Flash Born And We Saw In The News Paper That The Arrow Would Still Alive And Call Him Self The Green Arrow And HawkGirl Ehexist So With The Death Of Barry Mother Or Not Barry Would Become The Flash ,I Agree With What Qoushik Said I Guess Barry Will Go Back In Time Stop Him Self From Time Travelling at all This How The Reverse Flash And Eddie Still Exist In The Next Season

Except one thing; Eobard was viewing the newspaper in the alternate timeline after a point at which he intervened. The newspaper would be summarizing events that occured after that, meaning Oliver still would have died without Barry's intervention. We never got a confirmation from Thawne as to whether or not ALL the events in the paper remained unchanged; just that The Flash disappears and isn't heard from again.