Awake starring Jason Isaacs

[The Sage]

I'm confused...

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was it all a dream afterall?

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Or did Mike's mind create a third reality?

It's weird. I had thought the Blue world was the real world until the last five minutes.

 

[Paradox1]

I have been literally brain f___ed by that ending I haven't been this confused about an ending since the first time I seen twelve monkeys.

 

[Sawyer]

Whether the series was cancelled or renewed, I think that was probably the best way to go. Had it been renewed, there would've been intrigue and questions going into season two. If cancelled, there was enough closure that all Killen really needs to do is say what the **** was happening in that final scene.

I loved it.

 

[O'Haire]

Glad it finished with a pretty happy ending and not a major cliffhanger. Sure I still wonder wtf is going on. But him being with his wife and son again in some way is good enough for me.

 

[carrrnuttt]

For a while there, I seriously thought that (had it been renewed) that next season would have been him in prison in his wife's world, learning about crimes to solve from inside prison, while he figures out ways to get his other half out as a detective in his son's world.

 

[Crockett]

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I love Isaac in the last shot, the smirk but then you could see doubt on his face, he knows that perhaps something doesn't feel right, then he closed his eyes, fantastic acting.

Looking back on the show, I wish it was envisioned more like a mini-series (like the somewhat similar Life on Mars as an example) so it doesn't focus much on the procedural part as they did in the first few episodes, they way they could have the episodes like him just being with his family in either realities and constructed the conspiracy angle better. As much as I liked the show and I hate to say this but I feel like they use the series premise in these 13 episodes good enough, any longer would feel like stretching it. The ending was fitting.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Very satisfied with the ending At least we GOT an ending, and it didn't just cut off in mid flow.

 

[Project862006]

so my understanding is michael was able to dream a 3rd reality ?

 

[hopefuldreamer]

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Well it looked like he was able to blend the two together into one.

Like all he had to do was find the door that opened one to the other beyond his going to sleep, and then both world's could exist at the same time.

What would have been really interesting to see would be how the two different partners would have worked out in this merged brain... Or the two shrinks. Like would they become combinations of the personalities/appearance of each?

 

[Project862006]

yeah it was a very interesting finale

hell of alot better than a cliche he is in a coma like most people thought it would be

 

[Rowsdower!]

Not surprised this show got canned. I lost interest after a few episodes; the premise was cool and I love Isaacs, but the rest of the cast was just lousy, IMO. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't buy "Fez" as a detective. I just kept waiting for him to say to Isaacs, "GOOD DAY YOU THON OF A BEECH!" The guy from The Practice pretty much played the same character he played on that show, just in cop form. The wife looked young enough to be Isaacs' daughter and acted like she stoned the whole time, and the kid was just your typical angsty little teenage prick. The psychiatrist characters were okay, and I wanted to hang in there for Isaacs, but I just couldn't.

 

[Project862006]

well you missed a damn good show

 

[THUNDERSTRIKE]

well, did I say it was a bizarre finale or what?...

I'm STILL trying to figure out what the f**k with Wilmer in the penguin suit... lol...

but here's MY take on it and how I interpreted it...

back at the start of the first ep, Michael was already beginning his dream 'reality' of the "accident"... within THAT dream, he eventually began to dream a second reality...

and then the dreams and the series progressed from then on... we're shown Michael dealing the loss of his son in one reality and the loss of his wife in the other and his coping with both and the dreams progressing to the point where Michael comes to the realization that there was more to it than just an "accident"...

his uncovering the truth about the deaths of the two most important people in his life and his finally resolving it was his way of dealing with it all and finally putting closure to the dream... and to the series...

he DID say earlier that all he wanted was his family back... and in the very end, he finally did... by waking up...

it IS a pretty simplistic way of how to interpret the last episode, but seeing as how there's no second season and how it all was presented, doesn't it seem like a good and proper way to end the series?... a happy ending for Michael...

so all in all, it was just a bad dream that happened in the space of one night...

though one has to wonder why Michael would have such a bizarre dream to begin with?...

or is Michael STILL dreaming and was that last scene the creation of a third reality within the dream?... if so, how would THAT storyline have worked, since the mystery of the "accident" was finally solved and he's with his family again?... or was there more to it than that?... hmmmm...

the only thing that was never resolved was the serial killer who escaped him early in the series... is HE possibly somehow involved in it all?... another hmmmm...

since Awake is HIS baby, I would LOVE to hear Jason Isaac's take on the final ep and where he wanted the series to progress... would be some interesting reading as to where this all possibly could have gone...

but all in all, the finale we got, bizarre though it WAS, was a good one that gave us the best closure that we could ask for from a series that was intending to continue, but unfortunately got cancelled...

thank god for no cliffhanger, really...

 

[Mikelus]

What seems more logical, is that he created the third reality while being in a coma. No, he wasn't mind travelling between parallel worlds!!

 

[Shifty]

The ending was a cross between The Prisoner and Inception. Satisfied with how it ended and curious what was to come and disappointed that this couldn't attract more viewers to stay on. Kyle Killen head to cable! Stay away from network TV!

He mentioned on Twitter that he'll discuss plans for season two in interviews today.

Here is one
http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/awake-series-finale-interview-with-creator-kyle-killen

 

[X-Ray]

Weird yet satisfying. Pretty much like Journeyman's last episode.

 

[TheBat812]

So, it's been cancelled? Bummer, I wanted to find out more of what the hell was going on. still, pretty damn good way to end it, despite it being unclear.

 

[Paradox1]

So the final reailty we saw wasn't real.. Interesting

 

[Asgard]

We never find out what's happened to Michael.

Is he dreaming? Is he in a coma? All we know is that hes been living through two different realities and now a third in which both Hannah and Rex are alive.

Pretty good finale.

 

[jaymes_e06]

^I think that the entire purpose of him making a reality is that none of the realities are real our perception of reality is what drives us. He decided to kind of go down the rabbit hole, if you will, and that led him to his family.









And the Matrix.

Sorry couldn't resist...

 

[Paradox1]

So the final reailty we saw wasn't real.. Interesting

 

[TheBat812]

Sounds a bit like inception. I suppose the point is what the woman therapist said, where he finally accepted a reality. Despite it being wackier than ever, haha. But so is the whole cover-up thing just a physical manifestation of that struggle?

 

[Tanin]

I always felt the show was about a man that lost one of his family members and that one of the realities is real. It seems to me that at the end he realized one was fake and if he was going to have a fake reality he may as well go all the way with it and have his whole family back. I think that is why his two shrinks were bickering. Yes realizing what was going on is a step forward... but intentionally creating another fake world is a step back as well.

Too bad we won't see what was in store with season two.

 

[Paradox1]

Sounds a bit like inception. I suppose the point is what the woman therapist said, where he finally accepted a reality. Despite it being wackier than ever, haha. But so is the whole cover-up thing just a physical manifestation of that struggle?

According to the producers there was actually a accident and one of the people he loved did die. Either the red or the green universe was real and not even the writers at this point knew which was real.

 

[Sawyer]

Anyone else pissed they haven't at least put this on DVD?