Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-9346948-20160525000159/@comment-24238528-20160525123249

yes, you are right -- the whole reason Eobard came back from the future to kill Barry's mum was because of Barry being the Flash, and also Eobard has now been stopped from killing Mr and Mrs Harrison Wells so they get to have Jessie (Mrs Wells was pregnant) and go ahead to build the accelerator. So Barry was just correcting the timeline back to the original timeline that Eobard changed