That was a great scene.

It was. And the point of the scene is that they won't tell. There is a bond of trust between Spidey and these New Yorkers.

Regarding Bruce's knees and back. With the knee they addressed it with a magic Lucius Fox knee brace so awesome he can kick out a brick wall. So, that wasn't hard to swallow. Mostly Bruce's medical checkup reminded me of Batman Beyond when we have Bitter Old Bruce and his wrecked body. So that was also a compelling reason for him to pass it down to somebody else. We're used to Batman's age getting rebooted frequently but if you compare his prime to that of an athlete like a football player or a boxer, he's probably not going to be doing it for more than 10-15 years tops. Plus he spent 7 years training before he even put on the mask. Because I had Bitter Old Bruce in my head, I had an emotional point of comparison to this Bruce's decision to leave the role. To move beyond Batman. Again, something that would never (could never) happen in the comics. But felt right for these movies.

I'm really supposed to buy that he had the knee brace on after Bane stripped him of everything else? I can't even remember if he was wearing long pants, but the idea that Bane took all but one of his things is...well, I think it's as weak as the idea that Blake has the skills to be Batman, pretty much.

I could suspend disbelief that since it was a fusion bomb, rather than a fission bomb, it didn't have the same kind of fallout as a normal atomic bomb.

Yeah, you'd get the initial EMP and gamma ray/neutron pulse from the explosion, but I don't think there would be a cloud of radioactive fallout afterwards. You'd just have to get it far enough out that the neutron radiation wasn't harming people. Well, and so the cloud of superheated vapor didn't blow across an inhabited coastline or par broil a bunch of lobster fishermen and tugboat captains.

Even given all that, I still don't buy the reaction from the Feds watching on TV being so immediately casual/happy. I'm pretty sure if ANY kind of nuclear bomb went off that close to a major US city the reaction would be "Oh fuck" and not "Over the bay? Everything's fine!"

No matter what, Aquaman was PISSED.

I'm really supposed to buy

Everybody has a different dew-point for their suspension of disbelief. I mostly didn't mind the bad science, but at least with the knee they threw three seconds of explanation at it.

You can't fix a vertebrae that's sticking out of somebody's back by punching it. And they didn't bother to wave their hands at it.

Maybe YOU can't. You just haven't met the right Afghani prison doctor yet.

No, they did more than wave their hands at it. They clearly proposed a solution, it's just not one that really works.

You can fix anything by punching it. Just ask Superboy-Prime.