mia_mcdavid, our son James, and I saw The Dark Knight this evening. Being quite ignorant of the world of comics, I knew much less of the story line than they did. However, I came away from the movie with one overriding thought:

Heath Ledger as the Joker sounded just like Peter Falk as Columbo. I don’t think this was an accident: What we saw was Columbo’s understanding of human nature, his careful thinking, and his relentless pestering of his adversary gone bad. Really bad.