Poll If Thawne had Waited One More Month?

[Guy Gardener]

If Thawne had waited one more moth, and obviously, if it had also taken Barry Allen one more month to figure out who had killed his mother, or converselly if Rip Hunter had arrived one month earlier.

"Sigh"

15 years figuring out how to get back to the Future, climaxing in season one's final, and there's Hawkgirl in a crowd of onlookers, marvelling at the planet eating singularity opening up like it's a rainbow on a rainy day... Which means that Kendra is only probably weeks away from figuring out that she is an immortal princess when Thawne still had a pulse.

If Thawne had delayed his plans, or been slower off the mark, then Rip Hunter's time ship would have arrived before Thawne's inevitable routing, therefore if this meglomaniac was as yet undiscovered or unmasked as the Reverse Flash, then "Welles" would have been part of the discussion about attacking/saving 2166 and might have been conscripted with the rest of the legends, if he didn't try to take the ship outright at the first opportunity.

Although if Hunter knew this "final fate" for Thawne, then saving The Reverse Flash and conscripting him into this new squad of Time Masters might be a good idea if you know, you could trust Thawne not to be a dick, if Rip Hunter freejacked faux-Welles moments before he was supposed to have been sanitized from the timeline by Eddie.

Did Rip Hunter even consider asking The Man in Yellow to join his band of Legends?

 

[Tosk]

if Rip Hunter freejacked Welles moments before he was supposed to have been sanitized from the timeline by Eddie.

Bu then Thawne would have just assumed the body of someone else, surely? Unless you take Wells back again once Thawne is stuck as someone else? And then make sure you save Wells' special lady friend. Or...nah, too confusing for me.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I'll change that.

I was referring to episode 23 just before Eobard is supposed to die, not Wells 15 years earlier.

How the Reverse Flash died, barely makes sense, and the universe deleting Thawne, but not retroactively, could have just as easily have been a teleportation effect, or substituted with a teleportation effect, as far as these 21st century idiots knew any better.

 

[Tosk]

Ah, gotcha.

I find a lot of the time travel plot points/excuses on The Flash to be weird. I mostly just roll with them now. Easier.

 

[Ovation]

A wise policy. I always take the time travel "rules" as given (none of them ever stand up to scrutiny anyway). Keeps the blood pressure in check.