Lame? *stares at you in disbelief* I will be haunted forever by the image of a mad Nightwing crawling down Batman's inverted corpse like a lizard crawling down a wall. Not that the entire Gotham scene isn't brilliantly written, you understand, but.... *shudders*
In Dick's defense he thought he was doing something good.
Yes, I could see that. I think it made everything creepier. *shudders some more* Though it does make perfect sense, of course -- who could take Bruce by surprise like that except someone he genuinely trusted? *closes eyes and curls up tight*
One thing I wanted to mention, but forgot earlier: when the Joker said that Batman had kissed him and then died, my very first thought (before the Joker clarified that Batman had already been dead when the Joker found him) was that Bruce had known he had the plague, and wanted to be certain the Joker caught it, too, so he used his last breath to infect and kill his enemy....
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2/7/08 02:20 am (UTC)Lame? *stares at you in disbelief* I will be haunted forever by the image of a mad Nightwing crawling down Batman's inverted corpse like a lizard crawling down a wall. Not that the entire Gotham scene isn't brilliantly written, you understand, but.... *shudders*
In Dick's defense he thought he was doing something good.
Yes, I could see that. I think it made everything creepier. *shudders some more* Though it does make perfect sense, of course -- who could take Bruce by surprise like that except someone he genuinely trusted? *closes eyes and curls up tight*
One thing I wanted to mention, but forgot earlier: when the Joker said that Batman had kissed him and then died, my very first thought (before the Joker clarified that Batman had already been dead when the Joker found him) was that Bruce had known he had the plague, and wanted to be certain the Joker caught it, too, so he used his last breath to infect and kill his enemy....