re: Ending of TDKR Question: Robin Related (SPOILERS)

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You know, I've got to bring up a gripe about TDKR. 

Wasn't the whole concept of The League of SHADOWS to be kind of ya know, behind the scenes? Sacking Rome, burning London, cleansing Europe with The Plague...all behind the scenes stuff. Sort of like gotham just having a mass riot and killing half the town would have been in Batman Begins. 

Does it make sense that they would just show themselves to the world and commit the most high profile terrorist act in history instead of acting more subversively like they had been for thousands of years?

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Batman died at the end of TDK when he fell from the building killing harvy and scary face. The third movie was a close to death experience inside the mind of Bruce Wayne as he fell. The bomb and the white light were him hitting the ground and dying. The scene at the end is him in heaven. The entire movie is an analogy of the battle in his psyche for dying as Bruce Wayne or batman. In the end he leaves the city with a symbol but give it up entirely and dies as Bruce.

Thinking of it that way makes the third movie bearable.