User blog comment:Eobard95/What The Flash Season 3 should be - What Flashpoint should have been/@comment-2112031-20170228011530

This is really good. Although there are a couple things I think could have been different. The part about there being no original timeline and Eobard having always killed Barry's mother was already disproven in season 1, where it was explicitly stated that the particle accelerater was originally activated in 2020.

Personally, I would have written that Flashpoint Barry would have stopped his Season 2 self from entering the house. The Barry that's already in the house fighting Eobard and warning his season 1 self is the future Barry from 2024.

I really like the stuff you did with Flashpoint, although a crossover of this magnitude would mean that the Invasion Arc couldn't really be done in this season anymore. Although I suppose they could just postpone it to Season 4, they wouldn't even have to change how the story goes.

The stuff with Eobard is rather tricky, although I do like the symbolism with Barry trying to kill young Eobard and the older Eobard saving him. Although I think it would be rather difficult to have Barry kill Eobard and not have it come across as being out-of-character, not impossible, but difficult. I do think that the events could be better tied to those of Season 2 of Legends of Tomorrow. The way I see it, in the current storyline, there are technically 2 Eobards: Eobard-Wells, who got stuck in the past, impersonated Wells and got erased from existance when Eddie killed himself, and Flashpoint Eobard, who is constantly being chased by Black Flash due to the fact that he is supposed to be dead but is still alive due to his paradoxical Post-Flashpoint nature.

Basically, I'd write it so that, after Barry kills Eobard, we discover that Eobard had made a time remnant of himself from several seconds into the future, which is the one Barry killed. After Barry kills Eobard's future time remnant and gets "killed" by Black Flash, the remaining Eobard realises that Black Flash keeps catching up to him faster and faster, which then prompts Eobard to instigate the events of Season 2 of Legends of Tomorrow.