Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-26855145-20160127161317/@comment-5167151-20160129011330

thats simply the same problem like in the Terminator Movies. The "Skynet Paradox".

In "Terminator 2" the Heroes destroys the chip from that "skynet" was created including the Chip in the Terminator played by Arnie. This means that Skynet was never created. And this means that the Rebellion of the Machines will be never happened. And this means that none Terminator was send back in Time to kill Sara Conner, so no one in the past learns about the rising threat of skynet and the Machines. So the mankind can somehow creating "Skynet".

The Flash has the same Paradox: Eddie killed himself because he he wanted to stop Eobard and erased him from existence. So with no Eobard existing, Eddie has simply no fucking reason for his suicide. That means theoretically he dosen't kill himself and Eobard still exists.

So you are right the concept of time travel still doesn't make sense in all movies and tv shows who deals with time travel in that way.

The Futurama Episode "Decision 3012" makes fun about that paradox.

The "time machine" Remake with Guy Pearce from 2002 deals with this problem to. In that movie the death of Alexander Hartdegens wife is the reason for him to invent his time machine to trying to save the life of his wife. But Whenever he succeeds to prevent her death, his wife dies by another reason. Because her death was THE Reason to invent the time machine so He simply can't prevent her from dying.