What the fuck is up with everyone making comments that make it sound like they didn't watch the fucking episode? The fact that Gideon was willing to not tell Thawne that they had found the secret room (because Barry created it) was pretty important to the episode, right up until the end when they find out he knew they were on to him all along.
for fucks sake, take your own advice. Gideon has 500 years of future data in its system. its not a fucking plothole. its explained to you that wells is from centuries ahead in the future, he brought gideon with him along with his reverse engineered flash suit. both are flash tech.
Except Gideon can access a future newspaper and see the changes. We saw that in the episode where Gideon did a search and saw no mentions of the Flash. Memory in a database would not change unless that database was in the future.
You're just wildly speculating based on stuff from the comics. At this point there is nothing that suggests Gideon was intact 500 years in the future after Barry created it for Thawne to bring back with him.
do you think thawne would reverse engineer the flash suit and not bother to update gideon? the computer has access to future events up to 500 years in the future.
Which would mean it isn't a photo like back to the future but a pipeline actually to the future. The is somewhat of a problem, why not access the next days paper then and not one from 10 years in the future. Or even one 300 years in the future. Seems to be an underused advantage.
its not speculation, thawne had gideon with him when he came from 500 years in the future. do you think that AI is from ten years from now? cisco had no fucking clue where to begin with it. that tech is massively advanced.
conceivably because 300 years from now would outlive all this shows characters primes. so in order to have a character from 500 years ahead come meet barry allen in our present he had to collate data from this time era. that headline may be one of those Dr Who fixed points in time where as long as things play out in that headline, thawne still has a chance of getting back home/becoming reverse flash. it doesnt necessarily mean gideon doesnt have other events stored in its data banks, but that particular event is important for thawne and his purposes.
The event that brought him here was in 2024. He could have picked up Gideon then. Gideon also tells the Flash that he created her. As for it being massively advanced. It sounds like the kind of shit they always pull in time travel stories like the Terminator. Wouldn't have invented it unless it traveled back in time to begin with.
Citation needed.
ok lets say that barry allen creates gideon in 2024. it wont be that advanced tech but it does the stuff its doing now. now lets say somebody 500 years later gets ahold of that old tech and does one massive firmware and software update to it so it can be stored in a small device with 500 years of historical events included. there you go.
Nah, Its like arrow. They are taking pieces here, and there from the comics but it is not based soley on one run of The Flash. It's basically an amalgam of decades of DC history with there own ideas.
Clearly it isn't entirely based on it, since it says he needs to wear the suit to use his abilities, and he clearly doesn't need the suit to vibrate his hand to Temple of Doom Cisco.