Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-9346948-20161012044349/@comment-16494441-20161014054953

Kaestal wrote: Time Remnants still make sense, in order for time to be changed the previous timeline and events need to have occurred, it's just that for those specific time remnants they've got nowhere to go now and fade away after fulfilling their purpose so that the "current" timeline can exist.

2020 Barry, 2014 Barry, and 2016 Barry all have to exist so that Current Barry can happen, but they themselves don't exist after that purpose as their times no longer exist exactly as they experienced it.

The only person who breaks the above rule seems to be Eobard, an incredibly experienced time traveler who might know how to bend the rules, but he could easily just be messing around before he has to go die. Or he could have altered those little bits at the end of season 1 with his new knowledge that Barry no doubt spilled. But that still wouldn't change much, and Current Barry wouldn't have the knowledge of him somehow getting away.

Who knows? Is anyone here a time traveler? If that were simply the case, Zoom should have never been able to have his time remnants running around. Unless, due to it being the present, it has a different effect.

See, that's my problem. Messing with Thawne's remnants made changes, whereas Zoom's didn't.

Then you have the question of how Thawne (how came from a timeline where Nora wasn't killed) have knowledge his remnanat gained in a timeline that hasn't happened yet. Also, the timeline wouldn't have happened if he never came to 2000 in the first place. I know it is a bootstrap paradox, but those usually involve one timeline.

I can honestly say that this show is probably more confusing than the comic's continuity of the Flash.

I know this is trival to debate/explain this stuff. I probably wouldn't be doing so if the show didn't try to in the first place.