I Wonder If The Stars Regret Me?

Oh no, you're not lecturing at all! I've been really really needing to talk to someone who comes from some of the same assumptions I have about Bruce and Gotham, to help me untangle why I feel so happy about Bruce's ending when he's walking away from Gotham forever, and you've really helped me with that! It is really necessary to remember that movie-Bruce doesn't have that almost-mystical bond with Gotham that he has in the comics, Gotham is a city that he cares about a lot, but it's a collection of buildings and people, not an entity of its own. And yes, coming to the decision to be Batman as a near-adult makes it more...a job he's chosen to do, not a Mission he's dedicated his life to? He did his job--we'd never expect a firefighter whose lungs are messed up from smoke inhalation to keep going forever, we'd never expect a policeman who'd been shot and disabled to keep going, and I really feel like Bruce deserves that ending in the sun, his hair long and smiling and being relaxed.

I'd seen some people unhappy about the ending, so I'd been feeling kind of defensive about my intuitive love of it, so you've helped me feel a lot better! I do snarkily suspect that some people who are angry about the ending are people who feel like Bruce isn't Bruce if he isn't hanging around and making a Robin miserable. :P

(I almost really want to write a story about Lucius and Alfred meeting up after and quietly letting each other know about Bruce, eeeeee!)

Oh God, I would soooo love to see your take on that, oh man. *encourages*