When I think of Steph's last moments, I imagine a young innocent girl being tortured to death, who got away and was fighting to survive. Who wanted to live and had that hope stolen away from her. For some reason, Leslie's monstrous decision enrages me more than any villain Batman has come across.

I think that's the feeling we as readers are supposed to be left with... and if it had been some until-then-unmet intern or maybe even *another* doctor's *honourable* attempt at triage, you know, I would be with you. And Bruce could point and go: See? See? Not my fault! And, okay, no one would believe him, but why should we believe him any more because we know Leslie's name?

So it's not that Steph died, hell, it's not even the suddenly retconned WAY she died, it's that it was Leslie who did it. In the face of *decades* of fairly stable characterization. And not only did Willingham do nothing to convince me that Leslie would ever do such a thing, but, from the exposure I've had to his internet posts today, I get that he didn't think he had to.