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MadHatterJervisTetch wrote: The different Earths on the Flash aren't different Universes between a Multiverse. They are different TIMELINES from ONE Universe! Thats why every Person on Earth One has a Doppelgänger on Earth Two. Thats why the Breaches are created by chancing the Timeline with Eddies Death, thats why CISCO can VIBE into Events on Earth Two (Jesse held captive by Zoom) like he did with his murder by the Reverse Flash (another seperate Timeline) Get it now? I am sorry, but you are just wrong. Earth one and Earth two are NOT different timelines from one universe, they are different universes between a multiverse. Why? A couple of reasons:

Going in to season 2, it was announced that season 2 will explore the MULTIVERSE, and that is what the show did since episode 1 of season 2. This should be enough to show that you are wrong, but I will give some more reasons.

In season one we had a bunch of different timelines, and they didn't call either of them earth 2 or 3 or 4, it was just a different timeline. At the end of episode 15 Barry travelled a day in the past and changed that day's events, but they didn't call that other timeline earth 2, because it was the same earth with a slight difference. When season 2 started and they found out about earth 2, they called it earth 2 because it was another world that existed at the same time, not a different timeline. if it was a different timeline, it would have been erased like that day that Barry changed in season 1. When they were introduced to earth 2, they immediately treated it as a different thing than just a different timeline, they treated it as someting that they have never seen before, and they used new terms like earthe 1, earth 2 and the multiverse (again, confirming that it is the multiverse and not a different timeline).

You said that it's a different timeline because people on earth 1 have doppelgangers on earth 2. Do you not know how the multiverse works? Are you saying that the entire earth has to have completely different people with no  doppelgangers  to be a different earth in the multiverse? That is simply not true. A different timeline is when someone travelled in time a changed the timeline in a single earth, erasing the previous timeline. A different earth in the multiverse is a place that exist at the same time as the other earths, but has big or small changes from the other earths. The changes could be as big as having two earths with no  doppelgangers  between the two, and they could also be smaller changes like having  doppelgangers  who lived  completely different lives on two different earths. But again, what matters is that the earth exists at the same time as the other earth, no matter how big or small the changes are.

Eddie's death opened the breach to earth 2, not a breach to a different timeline.

About Cisco. I am sorry, but do you know how Cisco's powers work? because I don't, and the people on the show don't know it yet. I am not sure about Cisco's powers in the comics, but the show is doing things differently so it doesn't really matter. Cisco showed the ability to see events that are happening now, in the future and in a different timeline that was erased, so why can't he see events that happen in a different earth in the multiverse? No one said that his powers have a limit or that he can't look in to a different earth. In season 1 Cicso saw a diffferent timeline, sure, but how does that mean that earth 2 is a different timeline? because he is using the same ability? No. Cisco can look at events both in a different timeline and in a different earth. And events that happen right now. And in the future. It doesn't have a limit, so Cisco's vibing to earth 2 doesn't mean that it is a different timeline.

I hope you understand all of this and see that it is the multiverse and not a different timeline. because it's not. For many, many reasons.