AWAKE on NBC....

[JerseyG]

Anyone into this? I like it. Guy doesn't know if he's living in two realities simultaneously, or if he's just fabricating one. Or he could even be dead and niether one is real.

I've noticed some things, wanna chat about them?

[Lost&Found]

I Love this show so much. Ever single episode has been brilliant.
What have you noticed JG?

[JerseyG]

Well, Britten is usually wearing a blue shirt when he is in the reality with his son. And a white shirt in the wife's. Watch the colors. One side is filmed in warmer shades than the other side.

Also, the genders seem balanced - where the wife is dead he has a female shrink; where the son is dead he has a male shrink......it's like one male was replaced with another.

And now this latest stuff, with the serial killing on his way to Portland....is he plotting to kill the wife now that Britten has shown he can catch him? Also, can Britten survive - or can his realities survive - if he's living in two different cities.

I'm not sure if Britten is dead ( so says a co worker), but I'd like to think that BOTH realities exist ( a la Fringe), and it's going to be up to Britten to convice each side that the other exists.

[Lost&Found]

Another great episode. Can't believe that there is only 6 left in the season. Hopefully we will get some answers before the finale on May 17Th.

I am starting to think both the red and green realities do not exist and Michael Britten is 'dreaming' both of them.

If you have not seen last nights episode or the six before it, stop reading now as there will be events from a few episodes mentioned beyond this point.

JG in the second episode Britten and partner Vega are arguing in the red reality, when Tricia Harper, his Captain calls him into her office. At the end of the episode we see her talking to Carl about "taking out the whole family". Then in the seventh (last night) episode we see Captain Harper in the green reality talking to that same guy after Britten and his partner Freeman discuss the Westfield case right?

Any thoughts on what the Westfield case is regarding?
Must be sinister and shady if Captain Harper is trying to cover it up in both realities.

It is interesting that all though his wife Hannah and his son Rex do not exist in the others reality, all of the other characters except his shrinks Johnathan Lee and Judith Evans dwell in both.

(partnered with Vega and Freeman in the red/green realities well Vega is still in uniform in the green and Freeman has transferred to a different precinct in the red, Tricia is his Captain in both, Cole and Emma appear in each reality as well)

Do you think at some point the two shrinks will begin to appear in another role in their opposite reality as well?

Got any interesting anagrams for Westfield (Distribution) or Ferris Diamond (their real estate agency) RG? They are probably not doing the hidden clues that Lost did but kind of hoping they might.


Ferris Diamond = Risin From Dead

[JerseyG]

Britten must have been onto something, and that's why the car crash was set up,. I think he was supposed to die in it too. But what i don't understand is that is Britten was getting close to figuring out the conspiracy, or wahtever is going on with Westfield, why is it just him alone? It seems as if the other partners aren't a part of the Captain's inner circle.

Westfield must have something to do with a murder coverup. Is the guy the Captain speaks with another cop? Coz if not, then HE is behind the misdeeds (murder or otherwise), as in HE DID the crime, and the captain is helping to save his ass.

It would be cool if the docs appreaded in the other consciousnesses. I'd like that, but man, that'd be hard to follow. As it is, I was having trouble trying to fit in the damned penuin. See, to me THAT's Britten's subconscious speaking out to him.

[Lost&Found]

WOW !! This last episode was a real trip. What did you think of it JG?

With only two more to go do you think we will get some answers to what has been going on before Awake finishes?

[JerseyG]

I think we willHAVE to, as it has been cancelled. I am hoping they speed things up.

We now know that the bad guys were trying to move a load of Heroine, and that the police captain was helping that. But ever since the car crash, the heroine is in a warehouse that Bretton was getting close to finding. We also know who, in part, tried to kill him.

For a while there I was worried that his son was really the dead one. I do hope that they make a decision one way or the other be the end of the season. But I am not all that crazy about the reality with the preganant girlfriend.

[FullFrontalBuddha]

I'm bummed that this is being canceled. I wonder if the reason Britton was targeted is because he's one of the 'good cops' and they know he won't be bought.

I had read that they thought the finale would be 'satisfying' and I hope that they're right.

Since there's been no explanation of why his realities are split, or bleeding into each other I'm sort of guessing that it will be something like he's been in a coma the whole time and he's working out the details of what happened to him in a way that his damaged brain can process, and once he figures out who tried to kill him and why, he'll finally actually be 'Awake' and then he can take down all the corrupt police and evil-doers that killed his wife and kid so he wouldn't discover that his captain and other cops were involved.

[Lost&Found]

What did you think happened in the final .......... JG ?

[JerseyG]

Well, I wasn't sure...at first I thought that they pulled a "Dallas" and he'd been dreaming the entire time, but then I read reviews online.

He was never dreaming.
He was not ever in a coma.
There WAS a car crash, and one of his relatives DID die. And he really did fabricate one of the realities as a coping mechanism.

From what I understand, his psyche fractured even more by the end. If you caught it, he has a conversation with his She-shrink about it all being a dream - then she freezes, and it is like he makes his suggestion his new "reality" and that's when he ends up in his house with his family intact.

But the ending is not the reality.

The reality is that WE have to guess who died. I am thinking that since we saw so much of his wife in all of these weird dreams and flashbacks and whatnots, that she is the one who died. That he was reaching out for her, knowing that she was really gone.

And all the ways he solved the cases was explained by him only really using details and information he subconsciously registered earlier, but because he was preoccupied with other events, they didn't come to the forefront until later in the cases, making it seem like he was psychic, or drawing from one reality to help him in the other.

All in all, I liked how things wrapped up. I like that the big mystery of the car crash was solved, that the bad guys got caught, and that, at least for Britten, he has some kind of happy ending.

Interesting though 0 this was ALWAYS the planned Season ending, so I dunno how they would have ever come back after that for a second season - Three realities is a bit too much to keep track of.