I still wonder whether they’ll use the ‘Mr. Reese’ (get it? ‘mysteries’, ‘Mister-Reese’, GET IT??) idea. The Riddler doesn’t have to be the major villain of the third film, but they might have a hard time getting away from how his story was handled already in Batman Forever.

I would definitely bring back the Scarecrow and have him work for Talia al-Ghul. Just because that harks back to Begins doesn’t mean it can’t work. It would help a great deal if there was at least some kind of emotional connection from earlier in the series that can now come into play, especially now that *Dark Knight spoiler* Rachel is dead. Nolan had a lot of balls killing her off. He’s set himself a huge challenge IMO. It goes without saying that Bruce will have a new love interest in the third film, but it’s gonna be difficult because Rachel was everything to him.