Originally Posted by The Joker
That was a massively important trait sorely missing in TDKR. When there's a siege of Gotham and a so called revolution then we should see the citizens reactions and how they're dealing with it. We didn't even see what they thought about the Harvey Dent cover up. The press was there at Blackgate and all when Bane revealed it and we didn't get so much as a facial reaction from them.
That struck me as odd the very first time I saw TDKR.
Everything was set up so perfectly through the montage, but there was no real fallout from Bane's initial takeover, just fleeting bits here and there.