I disagree! You'd keep thinking the prisoners would over-throw the guards and bomb the civilian ferry, and instead he surprises us by showing moral strength and courage! Keep in mind that Joker wanted to make a "social experiment", which now failed.
1. Stop being gay.
2. I was watching with the anticipation that one of the boats would hit the button to blow the other and UH-OH! it really was their boat's detonator! That'd be more Joker, in my head. Convince people to murder other people they never met to save their own skins, only to kill themselves instead!
Heh. I was expecting that too.
I think the part with the boats was TDK's answer to the part of Spider-Man 1 or 2 in which New Yorkers cheer for Spider-Man while he fights the villain. An expression of yank's will to fight evil after 9-11.
Perhaps there will a different cut on some of the DVD's.
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!" -Conan the Barbarian
"Well, yeah." -Jason E. Perkins
"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents." -Ultimate Jaburg53
"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise." -Prometheus
That'd be more Joker, in my head. Convince people to murder other people they never met to save their own skins, only to kill themselves instead!