A Review of the Dark Knight trilogy

So I realize all the whole wide earth is going to be in deep squee about Iron Man 3, and with my usual timing I have chosen the exact wrong moment to want to start a conversation about Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, but there you go, I really really do want to have one.

I finally saw all three of the movies, is the thing. I watched the second one, ages ago, and hated hated hated it. I had no idea what was going on, or who these people were supposed to be, since I had missed the first movie, and I remember reading an interview where Nolan said the films were edited to be seen as one long movie, really, but I ignored that, and ended up thinking I hated something I really didn't.

I'd love to know what you loved about the films, and what you hated. And if you want to know what I thought, for what it's worth, here you go.