Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1038387-20160526205522/@comment-3361105-20160602163314

My interpretation:

New Earth and Prime Earth are separate. Prime Earth is a different timeline from New Earth's. The only precedent for someone "remembering" a past timeline is people like Harbinger, Donna Troy, and the Flash - and this is the same kind of nonsense happening again. It doesn't make sense, but it's an exception DC has used before (and sometimes, it makes for good storytelling).

My hope was always that Wally was hanging out in the speed force, remembering the old timeline, and that he'd come back. I guess I got my wish? Kinda?

The existence of New Earth Superman on Prime Earth makes it clear the two are at least functionally separate. They are the same characters, just from alternate timelines. If this were good time travel logic, New Earth Superman would have been completely erased, but this is DC logic, and it doesn't always follow real logic. Convergence confirms that all DC Universes co-exist regardless of whether the timeline was erased (mostly because they were bottled up right before they were erased???).

So, I'm not sure what they're doing with the New 52 versions of characters, but I do think we were right to separate the pages (eventually).