Caitlin
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I'm aware of how the ending worked, that's why it was so bad in my opinion. They had all of this build up of a sad ending, an ending that would have been fitting to the series conclusion of the Nolan trilogy, but instead... nope, doesn't matter! Everything worked out, everything is happy!Okay, see, when Talia activates the bomb right before she dies, you know how there's no way to stop it, and Batman hooks it up to the Bat and flies out into the ocean? That's to save the city and make sure no one gets hurt. So it may leave you thinking that Batman died, cause of the whole explosion and 6 mile blast radius and stuff. However, do you remember earlier in the film when Alfred talks about his "dream" or "hope" for Bruce when he says he would go to Florence and see him with a lady and stuff? Well, that dream gets fulfilled. Bruce actually isn't dead; this is confirmed in the flurry of scenes at the end, the ones where he donates his estate to Alfred, and his house becomes the boys' orphanage, and there's a statue erected of him and stuff like that. It's confirmed in the one where Lucius asks the two guys if there was a way to fix the auto-pilot in the Bat, and they said it had been done 6 months before, MEANING Batman escaped the aircraft somehow before it exploded, and since it was on autopilot, it kept flying. And in the very last scene, you can see Alfred's dream and see Bruce and Selina sitting at the restaurant in Florence. So in the end, I believe he didn't die and wanted to do what Alfred was asking him to do and make him happy, and he feigned his death to finally get away from Gotham, and live a better life, just like Alfred wanted. Though I think the best part about the ending is that it's probably up to the interpretation of the audience. I actually didn't know for sure if he died or not, cause I really didn't think it would just end like that, and I was talking to a friend and he cleared it up for me.
Endings like that piss me off because they have no impact or real meaning. They pushed the idea so hard that Batman made the ultimate sacrifice to save the city (which to be honest at that point was such a god damn wreck it may as well have been destroyed and started anew). But that sacrifice meant nothing cause "oops, he's alive actually".
It's like the writers wanted to avoid a sad ending because it's uncomfortable territory. But when you get right down to it, the most popular and well received stories across history were tragedies where the characters lost everything or died in the end. TDKR could have been so much more if they didn't screw up the ending.