that wasnt a flash back. that was present day... notice Gideon called him professor thawne... in the ep from season 1 she didnt say professor thawne.. and it also said 15 years ago
This Eobard is younger than the way that got stuck...
Look at it this way. this is eobard @ 25 and the one that got stuck was eobard @40..
So the guy that eddie erased was the older one.. this is eobard before he gets stuck and steal wells body.. Its E1 eobard thawne...
This is probably gonna be when Eobard learns about the flash... so this is the RF origin..
I bet thawne reverse engineered teh flashes suit and used gideon to help create his speed and time travel... He is so excited and wants to meet him.. and here we are... and now . let the hate begin
I agree, all I'm saying is that it's the same Reverse Flash from Season 1...just earlier in his life. Before he got trapped in the past. Not that long before though. Reverse Flash's backstory is basically "he was enemies with the Flash in the future, then one day he found out his secret identity and decided to go back in time and kill him as a kid". This next episode is going to be about how he found out who the Flash was.
I'm guessing they'll save the rest of his backstory for Season 3 (as far as revealing why he hated Barry so much in the first place and how he got powers).
So I'm calling it now. Near the end of next week's episode, Thawne is going to decide to go back in time and kill Barry as a kid. Barry is going to chase him back, get into a fight at Barry's childhood home, tell his self from a year ago not to save his mom, etc.
In Season 3 or 4 they'll probably have an even younger Thawne show up as a Flash fanboy from the future and Barry will do something to accidentally make Thawne hate him for life. Then at the end of the episode he goes back and you see how he ended up coming through the portal in this episode. Basically every episode Reverse Flash is in will be earlier in his backstory but later in Barry's career. Why? Because he's the
Reverse Flash.