Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-26855145-20161026193400/@comment-3423279-20161031150250

Kir the Wizard wrote:

Trainer Green wrote:

Kaestal wrote: The timeline still didn't change all that much. Actually, because he went back in time and killed Barry's mom, he caused a traumatization that didn't initially exist, which resulted in creating a version of Barry who is always messing with the timeline and altering history. If EObard didn't kill his mom, he never would've created this version of The flash who is constantly f*cking up the timeline. So him killing Barry's mom isn't minor at all Plus it was initially uncertain that traumatized Barry would even become the Flash, causing the interconnected Reverse-Flash to lose his powers. And forcing him to manipulate the timeline further and make Barry be in prime position to become The Flash.

Also, we don't really know if original Barry didn't travel through time routinely, actually, he would kinda have to if he and Eobard were going at it for years.