08-21-2008, 01:18 PM
Except for the Christopher Nolan movies, I haven't seen much of the Batman franchise that I can particularly remember. I've liked the idea of Batman since I was quite young (I guess it was the whole dark, mysterious thing . . . and I really liked bats, too), but I've forgotten the few of the early nineties cartoons that I ever saw, and so the Nolan movies have kind of become the image of Batman that I expect.
As for Batman taking the blame for the deaths, Gotham does, of course, need Harvey as its hero just then, and putting the few deaths on any one else, however much they may also have against them, would go against Batman's (or Wayne's) sense of proper justice. Also, I think, the mainstream of Gotham kind of needs to vent the antagonism that has been building against Batman throughout this movie; given time, they'll come around again - nothing is more fickle than public opinion - but for now they need to believe what is best for them to believe, rather than to know the truth.
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