In The Flash's second season, the late reveal of The Man in the Iron Mask worked because Lord knows there were enough Jay Garricks and dopplegangers running around (literally) to keep up with in the first place (and it was arguably more interesting even than the reveal of Zoom, who had enough of a comic basis to guess his origin). Yes it messed greatly with Oliver's head, but he still wasn't able to stop Prometheus, and Prometheus' game with Oliver had only just begun. When that show's masked villain Prometheus was revealed, it was someone we knew, but the unmasking didn't really matter. I likely wouldn't have as much of an issue with this late-season reveal if we hadn't just seen Arrow do it differently and so much better. But, The Flash loves ramping up emotions with these masked-man reveals, so it pretty clear now that Savitar will be someone we already know - but who? Prior to that, I think we all had pretty much assumed Savitar was just Savitar, a CG (now, mercifully mostly practical) Decepticon-looking "God of Speed". What's worse, in a way, is that we didn't know Savitar was even someone to be revealed until halfway through the season, when Barry tried to rip his head off. At last, it seems like Savitar's identity will be revealed in the next Flash episode, "I Know Who You Are." This is a very good thing, because the question of Savitar's identity has both overshadowed and bogged down a season that has been enslaved to this question.
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