Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-98.237.16.119-20151023070346/@comment-28166566-20160423133236

Agreed, for all we know future flash runs at time travel speed to stop the crisis and he gets stuck in eobards time were eobard learns of the flash, obsesses over him, gets his speed, and becomes his enemy to which flash says "bye!" and returns to his time, leaving thawne to learn how to time travel and thus s02e11 occurs and then season 1 soon follows.