User blog comment:SuperBen 1000000/How The Flash Season 3 was bad........in my opinion./@comment-24152851-20170605004615/@comment-24152851-20170605071046

At best he was divided. But I am certain he was far less popular than Goku Black who was an instant fan favorite. Key difference with Savitar and Goku Black, Savitar was the third time they had done the "evil speedster main antagonist" while Black was really different as an evil twin with a mysterious past.

The only thing I liked about Savitar was the whole "God of Speed that made speedsters look like normal people" bit. Everything else about him was just generic. Admittedly I didn't like how he was just a man underneath. But that man being Barry did turn it interesting. Now he's no longer a generic villain with a god complex and I wanted to know how Barry went from selfless hero to psychotic villain.

While there are some elements shared between Goku Black and Savitar. It's almost done in reverse. Goku Black was a villain who looks like the hero, went to the future, and turned out to be someone else entirely. Savitar was another villain who had no obvious connection to the hero, cam from the future, then turned out to be the hero underneath. Complete inverse.