@ultrastarkiller: Exactly. Like I was okay with Bruce feeling like Gotham didn't need Batman anymore in The Dark Knight, but that was before he realized what kind of threat the Joker was. Bruce came off there as a young, less experienced Batman who felt things were getting better, when in reality things were only getting worse. It was to show him that Gotham needed Batman more than ever, and this the need of his city outweighed his personal want for a happy life. It was something that I felt made sense, because we're still dealing with a young Batman who's just starting out.
In TDKR, Bruce has quit and just hides away for eight years. It's not until Bane appears and Bruce realizes that Gotham needs Batman once again. But throughout the movie we get Alfred whining and complaining, literally telling Bruce to give up...which is the exact opposite of what he was telling Bruce in The Dark Knight. Nolan even has Alfred bring up Rachel's letter to Bruce from TDK, ruining a great character defining moment for Bruce as it was Bruce's belief that Rachel was going to wait for him, thus causing him to fight even harder as Batman, not just in honor of his parent's, but now in honor of Rachel's death as well. Yet Alfred then uses that same letter as a means to sway Bruce from becoming Batman again.
Rises really just butchered everything Nolan did in TDK. One of the defining scenes in TDK was when Joker explains that he and Batman are "destined" to fight each other forever, yet in the very next movie Batman quits. It completely kills what Joker said, as neither of them every even fight again and Bruce ends up quitting...TWICE. -__-
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