There were drums to accentuate in the later tracks, but I actually enjoyed their absence for a good portion of the soundtrack. But you’re absolutely spot on in your description there, it did have a grand, choral sense to it, spiritual. Now I keep thinking about what alien places of worship would be like...

Ooh. Not sure where I heard/read the drum thing, but it does make sense. It's always nice to see what a composer can do when they're compelled in a different direction.

Has anyone shrieked “shiny and chrome” yet? It won me over for the authenticity of it, the range of characters, and them having taken a simple plot and blown minds with it, plus the movie is delightfully quotable.

He was told to largely avoid drums by Nolan (I think? He didn't want it to sound too military) and so he applied the organ in the most glorious ways. I own it because it is beautifully haunting, intense, and otherworldly.

Damn you for taking all the good ones! But now I can stare at them, so thank you. *grooves*

Let me keep blindly hoping! Valve is a cruel and fickle god.

Take all of my stars, damn you! All of them!

That was my understanding too! He seems to have a gift for it. He's endearing for that reason, in a crazy actor sort of way.

I thought that they glowed orange/red when locking, but now I'm questioning my own memory...

It seems as though...yes, colour, flooding into my hands! It’s a miracle!

I wish people understood me when I quote things from that site. Many a happy teenage hour was spent there, uselessly. Can’t believe I missed that one.

I comment occasionally, and I think there was a time where I was not greyed, but I have been banished back to the grey. Or something Q.Q

Dead. I am deceased. I didn't know this gif existed and you have enriched my life having shared it

Exactly my reaction. I am snort-surreptitiously-laughing at my desk like a loon. I think I may die from this crisp lodged in my—

THIS. I sniggered. Looking at that image, I ended up in the same mental space. I want a scene where he’s all panda-eyed right after being out and about.

YES. A star for you as well! My two-and-a-half-year-old adores Batman and some of the other animated series (which I naturally watch with him), but some of them give my brain reason to escape through my ear. I keep meaning to watch Young Justice, but dare not start on a show unless I know it’s being renewed.

This actually made me so happy that I keep quietly giggling to myself in anticipation. It has an Animaniacs feel to it, almost.

I don’t know what the movie advertising campaign was at the time, but in England, I was pretty captivated by the “I Believe In Harvey Dent” campaign. I found myself momentarily forgetting that he becomes Two-Face later. TDK left an impression on me, before gritty super movies were common.

I grew up in England and live in Alaska, so I've not been exposed to raccoons, but stories like yours fascinate me! And their little people hands...