Originally Posted by
optimus2861
This should be the end of time travel shenanigans on the show until / unless they get new writing staff that can handle it.
hmm, i would agree. I wanted them to keep time travel out inseason 2. since they were exploring the muli-verse with other alternate realities . it would confuse people to degree if rush explanations with bot event's happening.
but the writers really wanted it in some how.
Again it's the writers chose and they have to see what the audience see. Which is becoming a rare thing these days that some things aren't connecting with the audience if it's not explained well.. it's the weird cathy movie(the Millisa McCarthy starred in and was written by her and her husband) effect again , where the writers think they cleaver and when it reach's the audience .... thing's didn't go as they expected.
the time ramanent's were explained finally in the flash wikia
here it is in this link>>:
http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Time_remnant
^^ but for some of those of us fans who don't have access to that or know of this and just have sort understanding of it , they won't get it , if they have short attention span with how show goes about it or didn't tape the show.
this is why I kept saying they are an echo. they are a recording (a sentient one) in the speed force and this is why they don't effect any past events when brought to the present to help hero or villain . like when that one version of Barry that died stopping zoom's final plan, before zoom him self was taken away by the time wrath's .
a more Extensive & very detailed "overview" is in the link above
It's not a past version of Barry , it's just a artificial recorded version of him via the speed force. The mu has this same thing via the astral plane with telepaths.