I saw TDKR again last night. this time in IMAX(i couldn't tell a big difference, tbh.) seeing it that way did give me different previews though! The Hobbit being one of them. yay!!
a few things i noticed this time that i missed the first time.
I wasn't sure if Selina/Catwoman knew who Batman was pretty early on or when she figured it out. this time i noticed her slight change in expression when she led him down to meet Bane and Bane calls him Bruce. she didn't know until that moment.
someone, i think it was ita, asked if we thought the cave Blake goes to at the end was a new one or if it was Bruce's. i definitely missed that the scene where he goes to get the bag and gives the lady his "full" name, he's picking up what Bruce willed to him. the bag has the coordinates and gear for him to find the Batcave.
oh and Lucius definitely made it out of the flooding chamber alive. he's at the graveside with Gordon, Blake and Alfred.
that's all i can think of at the moment. still only caught about 75% of Bane's dialogue. closed captioning on the dvd will definitely be used.
I know that wherever Blake went
at the end was where Bruce sent him. It just didn't occur to me that Bruce was sending him back where he had just left (we'd just seen him at the funeral at the manor). I assumed he was going for training before taking on the mantle, because he can't simply put on the mask--he's just a cop! Like, seriously, never occurred to me he wasn't off to his own little odyssey of instruction.
ahhh...i misunderstood your original post. i also paid close attention to the scenes in the Batcave prior to Blake going to wherever he was going. it looked like the same place to me.
Logistically, that makes no sense, though. Narratively, either.
yes, I think that Blake was in
the Wayne Manor batcave. It is pretty far away from Wayne Manor physically, at least the driving entrance is. I can believe that the kids won't find it if the Manor entrance is sealed up.
BTW, I interpret the end as
Blake is the new batman, Wayen is the new Alfred, and a young one from the orphanage is Robin.
There's no way I can put
Wayne into an Alfred role, and none of those kids are going to be a Robin to Blake's Batman either. The facts might deviate from comics canon, but I can't make the characters fit that.
Alfred can easily walk from a room in the manor to
the watery platform in the Batcave, so it's far in the same way it's a long time between day when the gang comes out of the stock exchange and night when the chase begins.
As in...not very, except when it is.
Bruce? Tallish guy, dark hair, sometimes has a deep voice?
Right, but I don't understand how
he could be Alfred when he's off jetsetting with Selina and pretending to be dead.
It's not the logistics of it for me. I don't see where it fits in with his personality.
