In the stinger you posted, Wells says "This was only ever meant to be a temporary solution anyway." This means that he has a permanent solution, which, when the 'endgame' starts, would enable him to be the Reverse Flash from the midseason finale, as that was literally Harrison Well's actor. He can still go on to be Nora's killer, so on and so forth. You haven't disqualified him from that yet.
Plus, if he was a natural speedster, he wouldn't lose and need to absorb speed, he'd generate some himself. He's genuinely crippled, and the speed he's stealing is what allows him to walk. It can be 'used up' leaving him crippled again, as we saw.
I still don't see how Eddie fits into all of this. I think that, if they keep the path they've been on, will be the shocker of the year, not just on the CW, but maybe TV on the whole, mentioned in the same sentences with the Walking Dead and Game of Thrones' finales.
My theory is still that Wells is Eobard Thawne, which means that Eddie is probably an ancestor - sure it's not a very convoluted plot point, but it works.
As such, Wells/Thawne/RF cannot kill Eddie for fear of
As far as what his endgame is, well clearly he has needed Barry all along - probably as most folks have suggested to create the Speed Force. Whatever his endgame is, I suspect that it involves stabilizing his powers and regaining the ability to travel through time.
One thing that limited Reverse Flash in the comics is that he could never kill, or totally wipe out the Flash, because if he did, then he himself (Reverse Flash ) would never exist, and that was before any of the speed force stuff came along - just really simple causation = the Flash's superheroics being
Thawne's reason for gaining speed powers and travelling back to the 20th century.
This was different in the Flashpoint series, where Barry changed the timeline himself which freed the Reverse Flash from being tied to Barry's fate.
Of course RF gets killed by Batman in that series anyway.
Anyway, I'm sure that Wells/RF in the TV series is just a pastiche, so he'll have elements of the Reverse Flash and probably elements that are unique to the TV show.
One of the key missing pieces is Wells motivation for travelling back from the future in the first place ( I think we can assume safely he's a time traveller from the future). Clearly he's become part of a predestination paradox that created the Flash in the first place.
Also, I think it's possible that relative to in Wells "current" time (so 2015) the murder of Nora Allen hasn't happened yet. Maybe later in the show he travels back into the past (as does 2015 Barry) and then ends up killing Nora. So, relative to his own timeline, he hasn't committed the murder yet (because he hasn't yet regained sufficient speed to travel in time).
Who knows, it's a possibility ?
Whether he's got similar motivations to Zoom, to make the Flash a better hero, or whether he's out to destroy the Flash, but has to do so in a way that will mean he (Wells) still exists, or whether he's merely trying to return to the future ?
Until we get a few more clues as to his motivations it's very unclear - in quite a delightful way- what's going to happen.
Having said that we know an episode is coming in which Flash will confront RF during his mother's murder - I predicted from the very first episode that Barry ends up saving himself ( a bit like the second Harry Potter book).
Cheers. Looking forward to more Wells/RF hints. BTW this thread is really handy as down here in NZ we're at least 3 episodes behind, so it's good to keep up on what's going down with Barry and the gang.
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