User blog comment:Eobard95/What The Flash Season 3 should be - What Flashpoint should have been/@comment-2112031-20170228011530/@comment-2112031-20170228113223

Allow me to explain myself better. Within your post, you wrote that "our" Barry, the one who just experienced Flashpoint, is the one that runs into the house, warns his season 1 self, saves his younger self and then stops his season 2 self. I'm proposing that the Barry who runs into the house is the Barry from 2024, whereas "our" Barry does nothing other than stop his season 2 self from interfering. Basically, he arrives, restrains his season 2 self until Eobard kills Nora, and then returns to the present after watching his season 2 self disappear. We already know that Barry and Eobard are supposed to disappear during a crisis in 2024, which is more or less explicitly stated as being the moment they go back to 2000.

As for Eobard's younger self, this is how I see things.

Original Timeline: Eobard arrives to 2016, riggs a truck and, after Flash fails to show up (because, in this timeline, Barry hasn't become the Flash yet). Concluding that the Flash doesn't exist yet, Eobard presumably goes back to the future to try again at a later date.

Current timeline: Eobard's time remnant to 2016, riggs a truck, the Flash stops it and we basically know the rest.

The reason I'm not convinced of the their being a time loop is the fact that Eobard is obviously from a world where Eddie Thawne married a woman named Agnes and spawned an affluent bloodline of politicians, scientists and captains of industry. This obviously could not possibly have ever been the case if this was a time loop, as that would mean that Eddie "always" commited suicide in order to stop Eobard and would never have become his ancestor in the first place. There must have been an original timeline in which Eddie did become Eobard's ancestor in order for this chain of events to make sense.