It wasn’t a wrong assumption. “Any” universe would include all of them. The OP wouldn’t have had to clarify if she had said “any point in time” from the start. But she didn’t. She said, “any universe,” which would then make our Barry responsible for the actions of Barry’s from other worlds.
She then clarified, and I accepted that.
That said, if you’re going to lecture me about assumptions, please lecture yourself as well. You’re assuming that I think Savitar didn’t originate from the E-1 timeline, or am trying to defend that. It’s pretty obvious that he did, though there still is much to be explained.
I never said Savitar wasn’t from the current timeline. .
As I said, this isn’t about shipping. My comment and subsequent comment was about placing the actions of all on one person, which isn’t fair. Point Blank.
You can’t say it’s not about shipping. @foreverfelicityqueen literally tagged their post in the first place with “Anti Westallen”. It addressed the illogical focus the story has on Iris West being with a man who we just learned is capable of murdering her because it makes him more powerful. The plot up until this point, even beyond this point thanks to the sizzle reel, has been casting him in a favorable light and still trying to pass the two off as “meant to be”. It is about shipping.
“Any” doesn’t mean “All”. “All” means “all”. “Any” could be “one or greater”. That this storyline is happening at any point in a timeline of Earth-1 fits that. And you still haven’t dared address the fact that your idea of “holding a character responsible for their alternate self’s actions” doesn’t cover the part where the characters you mentioned as your example didn’t have inclinations for being evil. Caitlin’s case in season 3 has the Killer Frost form take on, and be addressed like, an entirely different personality from who she is as Caitlin Snow. Caitlin would rather have died than become Killer Frost. Cisco would rather lose his hands than ever use them to kill a loved one. Otherwise, Caitlin was no closer to becoming Killer Frost pre-Flashpoint than Cisco was in becoming Reverb, Joe becoming a lounge singer, Oliver suddenly dying and his father coming back from the dead to turn into Green Arrow, or Iris being a cop, meanwhile Savitar exists as a natural progression of the character we’ve been following for three seasons, as an exaggeration of all of the worst traits he’s displayed so far, and he hasn’t at all expressed the idea that he’d rather sacrifice himself than hurt the people he loves. Always putting himself before other people, again, because he thinks he’s exempt from terrible consequences arising from his actions. Iris still deserves better than a man capable of killing her.
