They go about it differently, again. Also, this isn't the only time she acts that way - I brought the way she talks to Harvey in general into view. It's very playful and cocky. She has that kind of smile on her face very often in the film, not just with Lau.
Am I being pedantic or are you over-generalizing?
That's something that we can't settle with facts.
Why not? I see you bashing her a lot for this, but I don't recall your reasoning.
If you strip it of her voice and her facial expression, the simple sentence sounds like it's not an overreaction, sure.
But when you view the
full context of the situation...
The way she says it isn't as plain as "What are you doing?", either. It's more like "
What are you DOING?!".
Being concerned for Harvey is one thing. Not even beginning to consider the extremely common sense notion that maybe there's something tactical going on here and she should just ask them what that is, and further taking the liberty to assume that someone you've thoroughly learned you can trust to the ends of the Earth above any other human being is suddenly a conscienceless bastard and then subsequently walking out of his life is something else
entirely.
That sentence was disgustingly long.
What affect does her knowing Batman's identity have on my point? She learned she can trust him, period. Very early on.
She also was ignorant of the truth behind intense things happening to her in both cases. In Begins, she handled those things maturely. In TDK, she handled them like an irrational brat and betrayed what was previously established as the character's logic (trust, faith, in Batman).
Your summary is far more out of context than mine, I'd say. As explained above.
And sheignoresthe logic of his answer in favor of her own warped and mistaken logic, borne of irrationality. Why bother asking?
Maybe 'ignores' is the wrong word for it. She seems to simply be too stupid/stubborn to understand what Alfred tells her. She's too busy being pissed and freaking out about Bruce (someone she learned to trust completely in dangerous matters beforehand) being a big dummy to think reasonably or actually try to comprehend to the answer to the question she asked.
Instead she just retorts, 'you're right he's not heroic bluh bluh this is dumb I don't get it'.
Hell, before she even asked Alfred, she went and wrote a whole 'goodbye, I don't wanna be with you' letter to Bruce over it. Then she said bye to Alfred and promptly split.

Clearly she had
already made up her mind about the situation. How is any of her behavior here rational?
To hammer the nail in further, she explains to Harvey that she somehow magically 'knows' what Bruce is thinking, when she clearly doesn't, and is instead making a hot-headed assumption based on thin air.
If she were just concerned that the Joker was too much for Bruce, that would be an understandable thing to panic over. But this is way more than that, she's calling Bruce's
integrity into question, and quite harshly!
Hardly fair for
Begins Rachel, I would say. It was a
fear toxin. We were talking about how they handle situations that warrant
panic.
It's not that she asked him, it's
how she asked him. How things are said changes the context of them completely. This is a huge part of acting, or even just basic human communication.
My best friend isn't Batman, and I don't trust him with my life. I wouldn't be able to assume he had an important, logical reason.
If my best friend
happened to be Batman and did that, I would be like, 'Oh, it's just you Bruce. What's going down, should I hide too?'. Quite calmly. I mean duh, he knows what he's doing, he's the goddamn Batman and if I were Rachel that would be incredibly obvious to me by that point.
This is true, but bravery isn't always reflective of maturity - or even intelligence. Rachel was trying to get away, wisely, in Begins, and she was armed, but got cornered and had to retaliate. In TDK, she willingly throws herself to the wolf, unarmed, for little reason. She endangered herself deliberately, and that's stupid.
This was the one time where I felt she was behaving maturely, like the original Rachel would have. So I agree with you here, it was a saving grace that at least kept her loosely attached to the original character.
If only her voice wasn't so high and scratchy in that scene. Y'agh.