User blog comment:Eobard95/PROBLEMS WITH SAVITAR/@comment-31614978-20170521173923

You've hit so many nails on the head here. Savitar could have been so good, but poor timing, execution and writing has ruined him. With the show focusing so much on Savitar and what he was going to do to Iris, the show really faltered as it focused too heavily on that and on little else, which is strange because this season has been at its best when it did other stuff.

It especially sucks when we have a far more compelling and interesting villain in Killer Frost. She tugs on the heart strings of the cast and the people watching at home way more than this alternate Barry does. We have had time to know her and care about her as a character.

Perhaps they should have revealled who Savitar was the moment he escaped the speed force so we could have had time to explore Savitar as a character, learn more of his motivation from something other than a quick untrustworthy monologue. An episode from Savitar's point of view could be something really special, especially if it got its own "I am the fastest god alive" monologue at the start.

Tbh I think Savitar came about when writing the second season they had two ideas for a  Zoom: 1) a villain posing as a Flash and 2) an evil alternate version of Barry. The writer staff tossed a coin and it landed on its side so they decided it was a sign to use both ideas for two seasons.