Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-24856931-20161028033138/@comment-24693688-20171209124413

I am getting tired of this. There is no original timeline. It was already explained in 2x11. No, Thawne wasn't a Remnant there. That was only Harry's theory. And he debunked it himself after the heat discussion in the pipeline when Eobard says why he became the Reverse-Flash. DeVoe's wife knew the particle accelerator explodes; Thawne knew this. On Earth 2, Harry knew his particle accelerator explodes and that's why he designed safe measure to contain the dark matter explosion(still failed) I find it horrendous bullshit that the "real" Wells E1-Wells wouldn't know that the particle accelerator he makes couldn't explode. Furthermore, Thawne said it was successfully launched. Which means it didn't explode. This was one of Gideon's falsified information. He didn't add the "explosion" word either when he killed Wells. The newspaper Thawne had in season 1 is clearly before he went back to try kill Barry(and we know what it contains) Flash no-nos himself. Furthermore, if there was an original timeline: Eobard shouldn't have appeared in upcoming seasons because he would come from a different timeline(he is also erased from existence). And the Speed Force would have preserved his time jumps back into that original timeline(inside the Time Stream) until Thawne renders it null to create the season 1 timeline(because the Speed Force preserves past events for future events to unfold: Tidal wave, Vandal Savage destroying the city) Unless, this was always meant to happen. This is the original timeline/s. That's why Wellsobard was so pissed that Barry didn't save Nora(to make his time breach to go home) He knew that if Barry saves Nora, he is gonna go back to the mommy dead timeline. Because Thawne's timeline is the one where Barry's mother is dead and Henry too. He also tells him that Nora was meant to die at the stadium(obviously s2 spoilers from Barry) So, while he wanted to kill Barry, he knew he ends up killing Nora if he cannot kill young Barry. He said a bunch of lies making it seem he is from another timeline where everything is different. And if it weren't for the No-No Flash, Eobard would have done it. Not to mention that Remnants don't affect the time stream(but Thawne's presence did affect the Time Stream in season 2) So s2 Thawne wasn't a Remnant, Harry confirms it by saying that's his origin story. He thought, at first, true, because he stated that he is a Time Remnant and if Barry harms him the timeline won't be affected, but it was affected. The Timeline Remnant explanation was there in terms of scene and context and it seemed it was just the right moment to slowly introduce the concept to the casual viewers. Why Thawne survived is due to the grandstrap(grandfather+bootstrap) paradox. Because to kill your grandfather, you have to exist in the first place. They were just theorizing there. Thawne's just a paradox and his time period is undeterminable. Unless, you create Flashpoint which disturbs the timeline and causes anomalies(after they fixed Flashpoint better said) Some say that Savitar was pre-Flashpoint. But it is not important.

Even in Flashpoint he said: "The reality you and I know will just fade away."