User blog comment:Xandermcc/Why did Flashpoint last only one episode?/@comment-3221148-20161031195849

You don't really have to justify or defy an opinion, especially based on arguments like "did you want it to be EXACTLY like the comic, you fool!?!?!?"

Nevertheless, I actually agree with you. They were obviously doing their own version of the Flashpoint, which basically had the same name as the comic event just for the flavor of it. Still, one thing the comic Flashpoint has that's better than the show's is the whole "world being destroyed" part, because it actually gives insensitive for Barry to actively want to change the timeline. In the show, what, Wally got hurt but survived, Wells lost his company to Cisco, and Barry started to lose memories of the old timeline (which he doesn't really need, considering his whole motivation was about rewriting his own history, and Iris still ended up falling for him even without her memories), and also his powers if he tried to use them (in the comics, Barry accepted losing powers if it meant living with his mother, it was the whole necessity of saving the world that forced him to work to regain them).

IMHO, Barry's motivation for ending Flashpoint ended up as bizarre and selfish as for creating it. Thawne's whole "NOW WHO'S THE VILLAIN" rant makes no sense, considering that at that point the worst that happened was Barry committing the terrible crime of FORGETTING THINGS. TRUE VILLAIN! And later, the worst event was Wally's injury, something that the friggin Speed Force heals you from (ding ding ding, writers forgot how Barry healed a broken spine in Season 2).

Still, as a Flash episode that allows writers to retcon some stuff (poor Baby Sara), it worked. As an adaptation? Nah.