TDKR! Let's flail here where we're a little more out of the way. *grins* I wasn't exactly sure you'd like the ending! The last shot of Bruce filled me with this strange, wistful happiness, and after the movie was done I was wondering why it was sad too, and I finally said to Dan, "I'm so, so happy for Bruce, but Nolan...he broke up my OTP!" And Dan was like, "Huh? Bruce/Selina is great, and he didn't break up Bruce/Clark..." and I said "No...he broke up Bruce/Gotham!" Because it does feel like in the movie series Bruce/Gotham is more dysfunctional than usual, and at the end Bruce feels very free of Gotham, and while that makes me SO HAPPY in some ways, it's an ambivalent happiness for me.
But in the end, really, Alfred is so happy, he's finally gotten what he's always longed for, and for Alfred alone the ending makes me so, so thrilled. Bruce as free to be a new person, to find out what he is away from the endless war, is so strange and yet so good. I'm trying to write something set after the movie, and imagining Bruce away from Gotham--not training, not preparing, just living--is very much unexplored ground for me!
I was really surprised at how much I liked Blake, too! I thought he was a perfect mix of all the Robins while definitely being his own character. Which part of the ending did you call--that he'd become Batman? I had thought maybe he'd take Batman's place while Bruce was gone, but I didn't expect him to take over entirely as he did, and yet I think it's very right. We re-watched the first two movies before this one, and the first movie focuses so hard on Batman becoming a symbol that can outlive the man...it makes it very clear that in this world, ironically the one where Bruce has no wards or sidekicks or students, Batman is definitely going to be something passed on into the future. Gotham needs Batman, but she doesn't need Bruce in this world, he gave her everything except his soul, and now she's set him free. With love, I think.
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Date: 2012-07-26 02:45 pm (UTC)But in the end, really, Alfred is so happy, he's finally gotten what he's always longed for, and for Alfred alone the ending makes me so, so thrilled. Bruce as free to be a new person, to find out what he is away from the endless war, is so strange and yet so good. I'm trying to write something set after the movie, and imagining Bruce away from Gotham--not training, not preparing, just living--is very much unexplored ground for me!
I was really surprised at how much I liked Blake, too! I thought he was a perfect mix of all the Robins while definitely being his own character. Which part of the ending did you call--that he'd become Batman? I had thought maybe he'd take Batman's place while Bruce was gone, but I didn't expect him to take over entirely as he did, and yet I think it's very right. We re-watched the first two movies before this one, and the first movie focuses so hard on Batman becoming a symbol that can outlive the man...it makes it very clear that in this world, ironically the one where Bruce has no wards or sidekicks or students, Batman is definitely going to be something passed on into the future. Gotham needs Batman, but she doesn't need Bruce in this world, he gave her everything except his soul, and now she's set him free. With love, I think.