who watched the awake finale last night?

[saraandmichael]

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i liked it. i was hoping that there would be a bit of a different ending, as this one felt a bit predictable, but i was happy.

i really wish this show would have made it.

[alzi]

I only watched the first the first episode. Spoil it for me please!

[sake]

i hated the ending. It was like watching the last episode of lost, very confusing and disappointing. I was just glad i didn't waste as much time on this show as I did with LOST

[dcannie]

there are conflicting theories in this thread.
pandce.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=et&action=display&thread=9845

i haven't watched it yet.

[saraandmichael]

well, the long version is that he found out his captain and two others in the department were responsible for the accident he was in so that they could be rid of him in order to move a big shipment of heroin. he let go of the reality in which his wife was alive and admitted that it was just him and his son.

while tlaking to the lady therapist he started to question it again and talk about 'what if it was a dream within a dream' and then she just stops talking and is frozen. her office door opens up to his bedroom and he is suddenly there in his pajamas and without a colored bracelet.

he walked downstairs to hear music and his son came into the kitchen and asked if he was going to drive him to registration, saying he needed to be there in 30 minutes. he seemed confused, but was all "yeah...of course".

and then the wife walked into the kitchen. and he was bewildered. and tearing up.

and they asked if he was ok and he said he was perfect.

[saraandmichael]

May 25, 2012 10:55:26 GMT -5 dcannie said:

there are conflicting theories in this thread.
pandce.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=et&action=display&thread=9845

i haven't watched it yet.

i can totally see this.

and i like that theory, most especially since it was supposed to go into a second season.

i am so fucking pissed that show didnt make it.

[sake]

here's what my H thinks. He is VERY into this show, he sent me this in an email earlier...


I have two different theories of what I think happened (based on some
observations I missed but read from other people in the comments
section). Here's my first theory. The world where his wife lived was
clearly fake. They had their tearful goodbye and he essentially
dismissed that world when he melded with his sleeping self in the other
world. The world where his son lives is actually reality, not the world
where they're both alive. After his captain gets arrested in the real
world, he says he's going to go home and take a nap (or go to bed, or
something involving sleep) then in the next scene he's at the doctor's
office. He tells her "What if I just had a dream?" which could have
meant "If I created a world that was so real to me, why can't I do it
again and this time have my whole family together?" I think this session
IS a dream based on reality that Britten is using as a device to launch
into a new dream. The shrink freezes, he opens a door, bam; new world,
family's back together. Also, someone said his wife is "clearly
pregnant" in the final scene and they weren't sure what that was
supposed to mean. I think this is supposed to be his perfect world and
he "moved" Rex's baby to his wife therefore eliminating all further
complications and bringing the entire family together. I think the plan
was to have season two expand on that. Ok, now he "knows" what's reality
and what's not but he's choosing a dream world he can control, but feels
real to him none the less, over reality. What does that do to his real
life? How does Rex handle this? Does he start to lose his grip on sanity
even more? I think that would have been a great second season!

Here's my theory number two. Someone said every time they showed the
crash scene, they showed Britten with a severely cut throat. If we know
100% the wreck was real, then he should have had a scar of some sort on
his neck. For that matter, if three people are in a wreck bad enough
that someone dies, shouldn't at least one of them have a scar somewhere?
Plus, the episode was called "Turtles all the way down". I've seen that
phrase before in Borderlands (the game I play all the time that you
hate) so I looked it up. It's based on a discussion between a scientist
and a lady who believed the world was on a giant turtle's back. When the
scientist asked her what was holding the turtle up that was holding the
world, she responded with "turtles all the way down". That's a true
story, btw. Anyway, it has since become a phrase for describing infinite
regression (infinite regression is when A requires the support of B to
be true, but B requires the support of C, C requires D, so on and so
forth for infinity). So now when he talks to his shrink and he said the
arrest of his captain felt unsatisfying, unlike the rest of the cases
he's closed, he realizes it's because this world is a dream too. Then
when he says "What if I just had a dream" I think that meant "What if
all of this is a dream? This world, the other world, all of it". He
"realizes" that and as a result goes to the "reality" of none of this
ever happening. He doesn't question this new "reality" because it's what
he wants, but does that make it real? Is anything after the wreck real?
Is he dead and now in a perfect afterlife he created; he just had to go
thru all the detective stuff to get there? The house was all white, they
were wearing light clothes, the windows had that "afterlife white light"
coming thru them, not sunlight. Is he in a coma and dreaming all of
this? People in comas have told stories about "living another life"
while in a coma and some shrinks think that's the brain's way of trying
to "wake us up" or bring us back to reality. Or did the loss of one or
all of his family fracture his mind so much that he has now created
infinite realities for himself and is trapped in his own mind, never
being able to distinguish reality from dreaming ever again? That would
have made a great second season too! WTF NBC?!?! PICK THE SHOW BACK UP!