Women in "Dark Knight Rises"

[von_geisterhand]

The issue of women in "Dark Knight rises" is something that really did not work for me. I admit that I never had any major interest in Catwoman as a character and from the little I know about her current incarnation, I suspect that it matches the way DKR portrayed her quite well.
Or the other way round: This take on Catwoman suited the Nolanverse very well, was an interesting, fully rounded character and Anne Hathaway was bloody fantastic playing her ("Oops!" and change stance. Yes!) but... I never had the feeling that she way anthing more than a supporting character in a film full of supporting characters, some of which got more time and focus from the film than she did. This way "Knightfall, Robin rises, Catwoman betrays everybody for her own ends but gets to ride off into the sunset with Bruce Wayne nevertheless". I know that people enjoy the "Will they, won't they?"-thing between Batman and Catwoman but when she turned from Han Solo to"Kiss me and let's move to Italy", I just thought "Why?????". But then I am not a huge fan of Hollywood's apparent need to crowbar "romance" into every goddamn film, as you well know.

Which brings us to Miranda Tate/Talia al Ghul: As I said before, I thought the film rushed too quickly through its plot in the first half and I seriously wondered what the fuck Miranda Tate's purpose in the film was, other than be a positive counterpart to Daggett.
And then she sleeps with Wayne with next to no previous hint of there being something between then and you realise that she has access to the reactor/bomb and suddenly the likelihood of her becoming significant in a villain-capacity becomes very apparent.