OK. I misunderstood you. Thought you were talking about the Pulse Grenade. Yeah that part really bugged me.

: Do I really need to know how Batman got back to Gotham in the Dark Knight
: Rises? Or how he survived the explosion at the end? Not during the movie,
: where I was enjoying myself, or after right now where the answer
: "because he's Batman" is totally legitimate and the answer to
: any Bat-quandry. But after the movie, when I really start to think about
: the movie's plot and how absolutely terrible and ridiculous a lot of parts
: are, oh yes.

As for that (it's been a while since I've seen the movie) Batman could have jumped out and glided away from the Bat before the explosion. That's what I assumed happened. As for getting back to Gotham? Don't know, don't really care that they didn't address it in an already long movie. He's resourceful enough that I believe he could get back.

: Or for a more direct answer, my main issue with it all is that there was
: never real impact felt because of the fact that we are so high above Earth
: and we have no idea about what's really happening

So what you're saying is (sorry if this is wrong), you kinda wanted a perspective of New Phoenix as it was getting disintegrated?

: Stopping the Flood, and taking out that Halo, and escaping the ring was
: absolutely no easy task, and just got more and more intense as it went.
: The same occurs in H2 (even with all of its flaws), building up as Flood
: escape Delta Halo, civil war breaks out, Earth is invaded. Everything is
: going down. H4? Not much, no hurry, no urgency, no real true consequence.

Well, story speaking, in that you're going up against a galactic parasite and a genocidal empire. In Halo 4 you're fighting a genocidal extremist, essentially. The level of conflict you experience is, I think, perfectly believable. So again I'm really just gonna have to disagree with you.

: And as for their starving, no. Look how long they've survived on the Halo
: rings. Or on Threshold's station.

Fair point.