User blog comment:Kashyap69/a mistake/@comment-24.166.217.194-20150525065630

Thnking too much about time travel after the fact is headache inducing. It simply is.

Since time travel (to the past) is, for all intents and purposes, impossible in reality based off our current understanding of General Relativity, and Quantum Dynamics.. (Come on Unified Field Theory.) You have to really function within the rule set forth by the author and leave it at that.

In the case of this particular paradox... Thawne both created it.. and was forced into a position in which he would have to correct for it. The fact that he travelled back in time to kill Barry to prevent him from ever becoming the Flash. But a Barry from some point in the future also travels back in time to prevent that from happening. And while he was able to save himself, he was unable to save his mother. (twice)

Thawne tried to change the flow of the 'river of time'.. by his actions.... but it could be argued that time itself will try to correct for those chances. Like the idea that going back in time and killing Adolf Hitler would not have actually prevented the second world war... or the holocaust. It just would have put a different person in charge of it. They wouldn't have had a person who could enflame the people he inspired with his words.. but they may have had a better military leader. Thawne found himself as the instrument, by which time would correct itself. In order to get home...he had to actively create the enemy he sought to destroy.

It's why I feel that 'disc' wasn't the sigularity "black hole" they thought they'd create.. but it was actually a hole in space-time (Mostly the time portion)... that is a storm forcibly trying to correct itself. But with a death done for no other purpose that for one brave, yet ignorant of the consequences, soul choosing not only his own future.. but the future of his entire lineage. What Eddie did to stop his decendant there was both heroic and moronic. Because, I believe he is the direct cause for this storm that threatens to destroy the entire planet. *if not our corner of the galaxy*

The only way I've ever actually seen Time Travel explained in any sort of way in which these types of changes make sense.. unless they are thought out and pre-planted within the original narrative. (Prisoner of Azkaban is a good example of that.).. is that there are an infinite number of universes in existence. All intersecting with each other at any given moment. The moments that dictate which universe you exist in.. is based off the collective choices of all living beings. Do I have toast for breakfast or eggs? Or both? That choice for every person.. every morning.. creatives a new existence based off the fact that any of them could have been chosen. Eobard traveling back in time was, by it's definition a separate linear timeline than the one from the universe he came from.. because his traveling back in time changed it.

.... It's all very confusing....

I consider using time travel within a fictional narrative to be a variation on a Danny DeVito line from "Other People's Money.".. when speaking about Lawyers.

"Any author of Science Fiction can always have the time travel idea in their back pocket. Doesn't mean they should use it, Cause like a nuclear warhead, or a lawyer.. Once you do.. They F'K Up Everything."

And I believe that is what's happened here. *And that storm is the universe trying to compensate and correct itself.*