Rebooting a character invariably leads to the need to retell an origin story - especially in terms of a superhero, whose genesis are always as important as their behaviours and actions. In order to make an engaging screen version of the character, the superhero's reason d'etre - their fundamental compulsion for pulling on the mask and costume So, very basically, any Batman film that chooses to reboot has to reset to a point before the murder of the Waynes, and will have to re-establish every step Bruce Wayne made to becoming Batman, trapped in a perpetual loop to relive how the Dark Knight rose until the studios get sick of that line and we all head back to the start again to see the Wayne's drop dead in an alleyway. And no matter how many times any director "resolves" the character, the minute the reboot kicks off nothing else matters and we're left reliving the first act of a story that will never reach it's real conclusion, because there hasn't been one in the original sources. Imagine an all you can eat buffet during which you only eat the same three dishes, before heading back to the start of the queue to plate up the same three things again, and again. And again. No matter how good those three dishes might be, you'll get sick very quickly, even if they are varied slightly, especially when you know exactly what else you're missing. What about the Hush story-line, A Death in the Family, The Long Halloween? All of those iconic Batman storylines, and we are to be forced once again to watch an origin story. Let's just hope Warner Bros resist the god-awful trend of modern superhero movies to parallel a super's struggles to come to terms with their powers with puberty in an achingly obvious way - because I certainly do not want to see Batman Goes To School.