The Dark Knight Rises *Spoilers* Thread

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Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth

Makes me believe he's actually alive when coupled with Fox finding out autopilot was fixed - even though he's in the plane right as it explodes. Are we to assume that he released the bomb & then flew far enough to get out of the blast radius that should gave been fairly large.

I think I prefer if it was just Alfred's imagination, but unlikely. Ya, there are plenty of weak plot points, The one that I literally blurted out bullshit was after the truck drops to the sublevel / lower street and Gordon just pops out totally fine like a human wouldn't get seriously injured free falling in a giant metal box with other giant metal objects rattling around.

Guys. Batman lived. It's not an ambiguous ending. Bruce Wayne fixed the autopilot six weeks ago. Someone has the missing pearls. Someone fixed the Batsignal. He's alive. How in the hell did he escape a nuclear blast while flying at 100+MPH and dragging a bomb over the ocean? Who the **** knows. He's Batman, that's how. He has cool planes and bikes and cars and computers and little keyfobs that can deactivate paparazzi cameras and whatnot. He's escaped from a myriad of situations throughout his comic and movie career (not the least of which was, in this film, recovering from a nearly broken back). Do we really need a concrete reasonable explanation as to how he did it?

As for the Gordon/truck thing, I guess the rationale there is that the bomb was pretty heavy and probably didn't move around much (although I'd have to go back and re-examine the other film footage, as the bomb didn't seem that heavy earlier). And they do "wound" Gordon by showing him grabbing his arm as he asks Catwoman to help him get the bomb out of the truck (I assume their attempts to deflect the valid "how could he be fine?!?" complaint). And, when you think about the physics, the cab of the truck is what smashed into the pavement and absorbed the shock of the fall; the back end just sort of tilts and then falls straight down using only the kinetic force of gravity (whereas the cab smashed with the kinetic force of the speeding truck).