I'm talking about the character, as depicted in the comics in the past ten years. If you don't like him, why should you like the movie?
Because I entered the theatre (1) basically ignorant of the past ten years of comics and (2) with no expectation that the movie would be totally faithful to comics I haven't read.
If I walk into a movie theatre, I expect to have a reason to want to participate (emotionally, vicariously) with the events on the screen. This movie, I didn't. Ultimately, what seems to be the problem is a total and inexplicable failure of my usually-excellent radar to detect "you won't like this at all" vibes from the movie theatre before I got there. (Said radar being why I see so few movies in the theatre.)
Actually, I can't really think of a character I feel that way about.
It's usually applied to very damaged characters with oodles of emotional trauma (e.g., Spike, Sawyer,
Smallville
Lex).
I've never read a comic book and did not find this Batman substantially different from what I was expecting, in any respect. And I liked it a lot.
Just as a data point.
Jordan Catalano is a woobie! Season one Ryan Atwood, also a woobie. It helps when they have a violent streak, or maybe those are my issues.
Bats is defintly not a woobie.
Actually, I can't really think of a character I feel that way about.
I just realized that my One True Woobie from comics is Morpheus from The Sandman. I can't tell if this confirms me as crazy, or a cliché. Or possibly both.
Morpheus is such a woobie.
It seems to be a distinct female-to-male thing, I don't know. I can't think of female woobies, but that may just be the whole prevalance of women in the fandom thing.
::cough::Logan::cough::
He he he.
Morpheus is such a woobie.
So I'm not *completely* bonkers for thinking so? Oh good.
