Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-9346948-20171108022647/@comment-24476516-20171112193920

SeanWheeler wrote:

Kagemamoru wrote: The paradox thing was necessary to stop Thawne though. Yeah, but it stopped making sense when it was revealed that Thawne still existed in the timeline. Eddie's death was supposed to erase him from existence, but everything that Eobard did still happened and everyone still remembers the "evil Wells" and Barry's mother is still dead. Made even worse in The Reverse-Flash Returns when he traveled to a time after his future stopped existing, but went back to that future. If Eobard was truly erased from existence, the world would look more like Flashpoint and Season 1 wouldn't be canon. Eddie's death only killed him at that time but didn't erase him from the timeline. But if Thawne never kills Barry's mother, Eddie has no reason to kill himself, and it's a paradox. That's why time and space ripped right then, into the singularity, which was forced to close by Flash and Firestorm, so the timeline just had to make do.