Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-26855145-20161026193400/@comment-26855145-20161106211703

Kaestal wrote: Kir the Wizard wrote:

Trainer Green wrote:

Kaestal wrote: The timeline still didn't change all that much. Actually, because he went back in time and killed Barry's mom, he caused a traumatization that didn't initially exist, which resulted in creating a version of Barry who is always messing with the timeline and altering history. If EObard didn't kill his mom, he never would've created this version of The flash who is constantly f*cking up the timeline. So him killing Barry's mom isn't minor at all Plus it was initially uncertain that traumatized Barry would even become the Flash, causing the interconnected Reverse-Flash to lose his powers. And forcing him to manipulate the timeline further and make Barry be in prime position to become The Flash, resulting in a minor change of his mother dying and Barry being traumatized but still The Flash and still a hero, like before.

Also, we don't really know if original Barry didn't travel through time routinely, actually, he would kinda have to if he and Eobard were going at it for years. The point i'm making is prior to the killing, sure Barry was most likely time travelling but actually had more control of it because of his experience and lack of traumitization. All we know for sure is that this version of Barry who is CONSTANTLY changing the timeline specifically because of his mother, wouldn't have existed if Barry's parents were still alive. Obviously, his parents didn't ge tkilled in his original timeline, or he wouldn't have come up witht he idea in the irst place