>>114634142I generally think, with all the mutual frustration and pain built up between them over decades, they are two characters VERY overdue for some confrontation, regardless of the arc or context. Bruce Wayne: The Road Home gave us a bit, but there was still a lot that remained unspoken.
Stephanie never really gets to understand why Bruce was so hard on her (because, explicitly, she reminds him of his dead son, and he's terrified of getting close to her and repeating the same mistakes he made with Jason), and Bruce never really gets to understand why Stephanie took that harshness so personally and was so desperate to prove herself and gain his approval (because, not so explicitly, and perhaps not even consciously, she wants him to be the positive father figure she never got to have).
Of course, none of this is relevant to the current continuity. It's just why it would make a proper clash between them pretty cathartic.
