[JakeLV]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

weak sauce


just watched it

Spoiler!

Time travel is a weak move. What are they going to do now? He can use that to solve every problem from now on.

Episode might as well have never happened, everything will go back to what it was.

Spoiler!

Time travel is pivotal to Flash's story. In the comics, the New 52 is actually directly related to Flash time-traveling to try saving his mother. He does, but it significantly alters the timeline. Bruce Wayne is killed instead of his parents, causing Thomas Wayne to go all bad-ass Batman, Superman is captured by the government as a child, Aquaman and Wonderwoman are at war, etc.

I think this small alteration to the timeline is just a precursor to a similar event, where Flash DOES go back, saving his mother, and therefore never depowering Eobard Thawne.