The Dark Knight - [spoilers ahead, ye be warned]

[innerSpaceman]

Yeah, ditto, Maggie over Katie. Though ...

Spoiler:

Considering Rachel's fate, I think they should have kept the same actress for all the trouble they went through to re-cast, because the improvement was marginal to me.

Hmmm, the fake-out of Gordon's death diminished the impact on me of Rachel's death. Too bad, that.


And speaking of death ... isn't it ironic they chose to kill off Harvey Dent and let the Joker live? It was only at the movie's end that this realworld twist caused me to bitterly recall the sad fate of Heath Ledger. To his credit, that was the first moment since he appeared on screen that I thought of Ledger at all.


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About the Bush Administration references ... I didn't mind that in a movie that was going to give each character a moral dilemma or two. Considering Batman's role in society, I think the ethics of fighting crime was a perfect subject. And since it was raised in multiple ways, for Batman as well as for Harvey Dent, I think one or two Bushisms were bound to come up as object lessons.