User blog comment:Mr. Xemnas/2 seperate marevl cinematic universe's?????/@comment-1895174-20130201050316/@comment-3317214-20130205025918

1) That's awesome (about Stan's Rants). Yeah, it is wrong. It's completely faithful to the comics, in essence. Perhaps not in every single precise detail, but that's a part of what makes it so great. It's totally up to the interpretation of the director. I didn't go to see a movie where the comicbook pictures move (there are plenty of 60s superhero cartoons for that). I went to see Nolan's movie. And it was brilliant. And I don't think Nolan turned it into a police/detective thriller. It was a superhero movie to the very core.

2) That's okay. My point in bringing them up was, that through all 13 books, bad things have been happening to them - a series of unfortunate events - as they try to unravel mysteries surrounding their parents, VFD, Olaf, etc. And at the very end, which I find very conclusive, they have pretty much discovered, that when you try to solve mysteries, it opens up new ones, and it kinda ended with that realisation in mind as they sail off into the sunset. It was a beautiful, and conclusive end, even though it left a lot of plot threads untied.

3) Well yeah, that, and that he's only human. He was suffering emotionally after TDK. And it's when we see this humanity in heroes that we relate to them. Spider-Man goes through that kind of thing all the time, and the best stories about very superpowered (and alien) heroes such as Superman are all about the humanity within them, even though they aren't human.

4) I still think you're contradicting yourself a little here. But to the "human behind the mask" thing, we already know the mask, he doesn't have to be wearing the mask for us to look at the emotions behind it.

5) Yeah, I suspected Miranda would be important as well. They made a pretty big deal of her, but I had no idea that she would be the one to climb out of the prison, not Bane. I had no idea that she would be Talia al Ghul. And after that twist, it doesn't diminish Bane's evil-ness or his intelligence, either. It just meant that he was working with Talia. As to the "moment of getting squashed" thing, I think you should try looking at some of the greatest Marvel stories, and tell me that none of them have that kind of struggling-to-get-control-over-the-situation-and-being-overwhelmed-by-the-opposing-force feeling. In the words of Samuel L Jackson, "You ever been in a war, Councilman? In a firefight? Did you feel an over abundance of control?".

7) Well, I guess you're entitled to your opinion...

8) Exactly. There's really no point in being disappointed by TDKR... It's not always about him personally. It's his actions. He saved Gotham. He was a hero. He rose. Yeah, he was stabbed, but it doesn't make those points any less important.

10) Again, I don't feel like they're plot "holes". But, again, I guess you're entitled to your opinion...