Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-9346948-20161020212227/@comment-3221148-20161025124327

ChazmanianDevil wrote: That's an excuse. Can you actually say that would be a good idea after watching Flashpoint? Yes, because speedster time travel is much more damaging to the universe than the Time Masters' timeship method. Speedsters can shift into their self in one or another point of timeline, "becoming" them (otherwise there'd be multiple Barries running around during Flashpoint, or at every time he prevented the Central City getting destroyed (by Weather Wizard / Vandal)), while timeship travelers coexist with their other selves.

Remember how Rip Hunter's team was able to defeat Vandal only when they disregarded the Time Masters' stupid rules and ventured into the time periods that they've already been to (like, well, Chronos did).?

Well, then you gotta ask yourself: why didn't Rip just travel to 10 minutes before his family's death and nick them away on a timeship, especially after Oculus went boom? Considering they already disregarded the time rules crap. Then again, maybe their loop (Vandal going after Rip's family, because Rip's going after Vandal for killing his family) was too underlying for the current timeline to just disregard, but I dunno.