Even though they didnt show it, he probably set it to auto-pilot and somehow jumped out sometime or at least that is how some people are explaining it, but who knows, maybe they'll do something with the blu-ray release to explain it xD!

Anyways, 7000th post! It begins.........

Lol at the villain category! Would have been interesting to see a Bane vs. Joker vote though

Would Talia be included?

If so I'd expect Joker to win but Bane to come in at a relatively close second. Something like:

Joker - 45%

Bane - 30%

al Ghul - 15% combined? Possibly underestimating

Scarecrow - 10%

anyway your they don't show Batman when they show 5 seconds on the timer just about proves more that he's alive/

The whole alfred dreaming theory is wrong as he has no reason to see Selina Kyle in his dream..it could be a random woman...why a thief? 

Besides Alfred got to the cafe because the necklace tracker led him there in the first place since Selina wears it in that final scene. It was Bruce's way of getting Afred to come there. 

They didn't show Batman at the same time as the timer because the timer was on the bomb that was hanging 20 feet below the Bat.  Unless they did some sort of split-screen thing, there was no way to show the timer and Batman.  They showed Batman.  Then they showed the timer.

Alfred dreamed of Selina because, in the past 8 years, Batman has only touched two women--one was Talia Al Ghul (aka the woman who probably fatally stabbed him if he somehow survived the explosion) and the other was Catwoman.  He kissed Catwoman before he flew to his doom and I guess Gordon might have mentioned it to him.  He was at Bruce Wayne's funeral with Blake and Fox.  Some communication had to be made between the three.

There was a tracker in the necklace but Alfred no longer had access to the Bat-Cave and its technology.  You asked why Alfred would imagine a theif?  The better question is would Bruce Wayne give the necklace of his murdered mother to a woman who cost him his entire fortune, led him to Bane so that he could get his back broken, killed people, and kicked his cane out from under him when he was an invalid. Maybe Bane punched him in the head harder than we realized.

Face it.  Batman is dead.

They didn't show Batman at the same time as the timer because the timer was on the bomb that was hanging 20 feet below the Bat.  Unless they did some sort of split-screen thing, there was no way to show the timer and Batman.  They showed Batman.  Then they showed the timer.

Alfred dreamed of Selina because, in the past 8 years, Batman has only touched two women--one was Talia Al Ghul (aka the woman who probably fatally stabbed him if he somehow survived the explosion) and the other was Catwoman.  He kissed Catwoman before he flew to his doom and I guess Gordon might have mentioned it to him.  He was at Bruce Wayne's funeral with Blake and Fox.  Some communication had to be made between the three.

There was a tracker in the necklace but Alfred no longer had access to the Bat-Cave and its technology.  You asked why Alfred would imagine a theif?  The better question is would Bruce Wayne give the necklace of his murdered mother to a woman who cost him his entire fortune, led him to Bane so that he could get his back broken, killed people, and kicked his cane out from under him when he was an invalid. Maybe Bane punched him in the head harder than we realized.

Face it.  Batman is dead.

I finally got to see The Dark Knight Rises this weekend is here's what I thought.

It's a very good action film. The plot does require a lot of suspension of disbelief but it's an interesting one. What surprised me the most is that I found myself interested/impressed by were not the ones I thought I would like beforehand.

Bane was pretty bland to me and I sometimes had difficulties hearing what he was saying. On the other hand, I thought Anne Hathaway's catwoman was really really good as she navigated between good girl and bad girl. I was also  very surprised by how much screen time Joseph Gordon Levitt got (even more than Bale I think), his storyline was very interesting as he was the one figuring things out while Wayne was busy dreaming of Gui Gon Jin Ra's Al Ghul. While I did like the twist of Miranda being the child who climbed out of the pit (Thalia Al Ghul), I think they could have given much punch if her relationship with Bruce Wayne had been more fleshed out.

All in all it was a very good film but The Dark Knight was much much better.

*Qui

It is heart-warming to see The Phantom Menace is still remembered to this day.

May the force be with you

Who could forget the worst Jedi that ever lived?