@inferiorego Reverse Flash wouldn't have heard the bullet if eddie shot him: a bullet travels faster than the speed of sound which is around 1,100 ft/sec. RF still would have dodged the bullet cause his nervous system works so fast, that in the moment the bullet touched him, he would have felt it and moved his head.
During the "Peekaboo" episode Barry gets shot from behind and still has time to move when he feels the pain the arriving bullet causes. There's a "pressure mark" on the back of his neck afterwards.
Eddie didn't think it all through when he shot himself, cause the moment he died everyone should have disappeared (not because they don't exist, but there's no reason for them to stand together in the particle accelerator): Wells wouldn't have built the particle accelerator, Nora Allen wouldn't have died, Firestorm wouldn't have been created etc.
Wells explains to Barry how time has a sense of repairing itself. Time in the DCU is a very biological concept (maybe even a sentient entity). Due to Eddie's suicide, there are now too many paradoxes injuring the timestream, time collapses and this giant vortex comes into being... at least that's how I interpreted the last minutes of the episode.
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