Re: The Dark Knight Rises
The inconsistency of storylines is actually the reason I like comic-book based movies and tv shows but not comics themselves, I tried a few comics and it seems like the writers will just take things all over the place, wherever they want. Some of the things done with the Hulk baffle me.
I do believe each character has certain traits to keep or you may as well not be telling their story, but movies and tv are no different from the comic book writers, each one giving their own twist and doing things that don't sync with the others.
Adam West, Burton, Batman TAS, Schumacher, Nolan, they've all put Batman in different worlds with different rules, they've kept true to certain fundamentals but they've all had unique visions from one another.
I've said it before, I feel Nolan's approach is making good movies, not thinking about the fact he's making a comic book film, so a solid trilogy with a beginning and an end to a character's story is fitting for his film style, he just happens to be dropping Batman characters into that.