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.
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§ ita § - Jul 26, 2012 6:31:11 am PDT #22002 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tiggy - Jul 26, 2012 6:40:00 am PDT #22003 of 30000
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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.
§ ita § - Jul 26, 2012 7:51:19 am PDT #22004 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Logistically, that makes no sense, though. Narratively, either.
le nubian - Jul 26, 2012 8:32:57 am PDT #22005 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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.
§ ita § - Jul 26, 2012 8:35:54 am PDT #22006 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2012 8:40:29 am PDT #22007 of 30000
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Who's Wayne ?
§ ita § - Jul 26, 2012 8:50:53 am PDT #22008 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Bruce? Tallish guy, dark hair, sometimes has a deep voice?
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2012 9:07:34 am PDT #22009 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Right, but I don't understand how he could be Alfred when he's off jetsetting with Selina and pretending to be dead.
§ ita § - Jul 26, 2012 9:18:34 am PDT #22010 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's not the logistics of it for me. I don't see where it fits in with his personality.
Vonnie K - Jul 26, 2012 10:03:07 am PDT #22011 of 30000
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That looks amazing. I haven't read the book yet -- I have a copy at home, but I keep picking it up and putting it down because it's too dense for what passes as my brain nowadays.