Board Thread:DC's Legends of Tomorrow discussions/@comment-24856931-20161028033138/@comment-3221148-20161028073227

Kaestal wrote: Or, another theory is that Eobard appeared in 2016 but didn't encounter The Flash as he didn't have his powers yet and just left, killing Tina after she made his time portal. This is something I haven't considered... Meaning, now the history is even further screwed with paradoxes, and now we could possibly either get Three Eobards, or unravel the Wellsobard backstory... Goddammit.

That, or Reverse-Flash's time jump was moved by the Speed Force to ensure the slightly altered timeline happened roughly the same as before. Well, isn't that what was said in the episode? That he had to appear, despite erasing his timeline, and then, having his whole lineage erased, because it was the Reverse-Flash's origin story? I mean, it fits the whole "time remnant" thing along with the facts that Wellsobard showed memories of the old, rather than his-newly-created timeline, but still needed to have some sort of a "first meeting" with the Flash, whose timetables he now moved to the year 2013, in order for his powers as the RF to exist in the first place?