2. The Al Ghuls
So eventually in TDKR, the Al Ghuls show up and it turns out the whole dastardly plot was their machination. In the blink of an eye were suddenly expected to fully back them as the primary villains. Well hang on, I havent seen or heard of Ras Al Ghul since the first film, and Talia is completely new to the franchise. Would it not have helped to build them up in some way? Or at least foreshadow them throughout. But no, Nolan, the king of the reveal, just whips the carpet from under our feet and says Remember Bane? Well forget him now, Im just going to do him in later with a throwaway shot most of you will forget until you get the DVD gets released. These two are the proper villains. Thanks for that chum, way to ruin Bane at the very last second. Whats at work here is Nolans desire to make a successful movie franchise, to close the story off so that it comes full circle. But it doesnt come full circle; it asks more questions than it answers. So in effect Nolan has created a story timeline that does come back on itself, sure, but it stops just short of making any truly poetic connections. It felt to me like he made so many unnecessary changes to the mythology that when it came time to tie them all up, hed lost track of half of them.