Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow dicussiions/@comment-9346948-20160122012504/@comment-93.85.28.116-20160125001116

The show's pilot was very good, but could some one please explain to me how could the Reverse-Flash come from that world? I mean, the whole plot of The Legends of Tomorrow undermines his story. It was said in The Flash, that Eobard Thawne was born to a prominent family in 2151. That means, by the time Rip Hunter travels to 2016, Eobard is 15. How could his family be prominent, and how could he become such a successful and famous scientist in a world half-destroyed by Vandal Savage? And even though this could happen, with a very little chance, there is  the Time Council, which would not permit the very existence of speedsters, as the Time Council guards the Time itself, and speedsters are able to travel through time and change it? Or did I miss anything?