Originally Posted by
godisawesome
Which kills the potential drama of the moment, and is one of the reason why as excellent as Morrison is, their Batman's personality isn't the strongest selling point and can turn some people cold.
If Bruce got bad-touched so Damian was born, than we *should* have him display some trauma and behavior for that. If it was consensual, then there should be some heartache and complexity between the two of them.
I can et Batman being a dick, but if its just lazy writing because that particular type of characterization nuance isn't what appeals about Batman to Morrison, than I'm not going to find it interesting. It's like how Damian became so much more interesting once Bryan Q. Miller juxtaposed his nature against Stephanie Brown's more down-to-earth personality and highlighted the absurdity and tragedy in a more human way.
It's also why I think Talia wasn't interesting at all in the movies they made trying to adapt some elements form Morrison's run; remove Morrison's madcap meta-textual flooding of the story with symbolism, references, and in-jokes, and what you're left with is a painfully banal, ubiquitous, and unimpressive Talia who'd be interchangeable from any dime-a-dozen mastermind if she hadn't popped out Damian, and even that fact doesn't get the drama pulled out of it.
If the idea is "Bruce slept with the devil and had a kid," there should be a lot more drama to that beyond what Morrison conjured up.