Frank your Majesty said:

TDKR was supposed to be a lighthearted, humorous film? Wow, Nolan definitely failed at that, what a hack.

I'm not saying TDKR should have been an homage to the Adam West series, but it didn't need to be melodramatic and go off the rails into facist overtones. It's just as bad as Batman & Robin, but on the other extreme of the spectrum. But I'm getting too off topic here. No, Nolan is not replacing Abrams.

I'm concerned because we have lived through the prequels, and I don't want history to repeat itself again. In the 90s we all thought TPM wasn't going to be as bad as it turned out to be. Abrams has so far given us a weaker version of ET (Super 8) and a weaker version of Star Trek II (Into Darkness). We might end up with just a weaker version of the OT.