[Richard Dower]

^ when he walks into the kitchen to his wife and son, it's the morning BEFORE the accident....which takes place later that night, he's driving home from regisration for his son + this new verse is not red or green + no armbands.

[Richard Dower]

Originally Posted by Simi

I could have lived with the reality containing his son as being the real one. But that... words fail me. God awful ending to what was a decent enough show.

If they wanted to go with both realities being fake, thus the entire series being a completely irrelevant, why couldn't he have been in a coma since the accident and woken up in the last few seconds of the show, to both his wife and son being alive. There, I just came up with a (marginally) better ending in about 10 seconds!

That tallies with the speculation, if none of it happened what was the point of the series?, thus the creation of a third reality where both his son and wife are alive. Ergo he must as you say be dead, dieing or in a coma in reality.

If it was all a dream then the entire 13 episodes were for nothing.

[DeepBlue]

http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wat...or-kyle-killen

Originally Posted by Kyle Killen

We arrived right where we intended to go. How we got there was very different. We took a lot of twists and turns, and frankly did some episodes that varied dramatically from the formula that we ultimately thought was effective. We just tried a lot of things on. But the end of the first season is as was pitched before there was a show. It didn't have anything to do with being canceled or having to do a quick wrap-up. This is where it was always intended to go.

I thought the ending was a rush job to attempt to tie up loose ends after the show got cancelled but it appears they always intended it to end this way?
Yikes!!

[expectationlost]

well he solved the mystery so then he saved his family but it all came down to remembering the other cop

[Richard Dower]

http://tvline.com/2012/05/25/awake-s...ions-answered/

TVLINE | Obviously there has been much speculation about what the heck we watched last night. Will you go so far as to say that it was not all a dream? That there was a car accident?
I’ve seen some really interesting [theories], and I wouldn’t say that anyone is wrong — except the people who are calling it a Dallas or a Newhart, any variation on “…and then he woke up.” That is absolutely not what we intended. If you watch the last few minutes again, I’m not sure what the argument for that [interpretation] even is. I suppose there’s the überpossibility that he’s in a coma and now having a third dream in the coma, but in no way should it be interpreted as, “He woke up and his family was fine. He’d just been having two nightmares.”

[Pushtrak]

Great show. If anyone reads come to this thread with the intention of finding out if they should watch, take this post as an affirmative. You ought.

[Richard Dower]

Best and most clear cut post finale interview yet, Killeen is very clear and explanatory....well worth the read: http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/05/26/aw...ing-questions/

[expectationlost]

Originally Posted by Richard Dower

Best and most clear cut post finale interview yet, Killeen is very clear and explanatory....well worth the read: http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/05/26/aw...ing-questions/

so the green world was real the one with female shrink, *throws hand up* so so what?

asking for an emmy for isaacs shows how this show was over dependent on him

another show where the creator one minute says he has the whole planned out the next no plan.

[Sephiroth_dude]

great show,really enjoying it,how many episodes are in this season?

[kearneybobs]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth_dude

great show,really enjoying it,how many episodes are in this season?

13

Shame it didn't get renewed.

[Sephiroth_dude]

Originally Posted by kearneybobs

13

Shame it didn't get renewed.

so no season 2?

[jonneymendoza]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth_dude

so no season 2?

nope

[Quazzie]

I can't believe people who thought it was a poor ending. To me it was obvious that this was a third universe where he lived with bot Rex and Hannah.

It's laid out that you can take from the ending what you want, much akin to Inception. I guess some people just like to think they are too smart for the show. I have to say I really enjoyed from start to finish.

[The Black Oil]

They upped the ante in the last few episodes and Issacs (Hello, Jason) upped his game as well. I can't think of anything too negative to say, or even minor negativities.