Awake - just got round to watching the finale

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Recorded the finale a while ago when series was repeated (after missing the end the first time round).

Anyway, it was always quite hard work keeping up, and having had a break didn't help, but I really didn't understand it. Particularly the very last scene.

Tell me it wasn't a Bobby Ewing moment...

I don't know

I watched it all and the ending pissed me off as didnt make sense

Was it all a dream or did something happen

Was meant to be a 2nd series but think it got cancelled

Hence the silly ending :(

I remember at school being told off whenever we couldn't think of a story ending and we'd just put....'and then I woke up'

This was at about age 10...

The bit about having to wind up suddenly if the second series was canned would partly explain it, but it was still very poor. Even on a really basic level they could have written an ending to show which version of his reality was 'real'.

So what happened? I got a bit into the series but then lost track of it when I had a newborn. So was it all a dream? They honestly didn't choose one of the realities to be real?

The ending meant that he was crazy all along and his reality had fractured even more to him believing his wife and son were still alive. Pretty depressing ending really.

So who was dead? Both his wife and son? So neither reality was real?

The finale was shot before the series was cancelled so it was meant to be a cliffhanger. My take is that the red world (where Hannah is alive) is real and the green world (where Rex is alive) is the dream. In the green world he has saved the day and his boss has been arrested, more likely to be a creation of his subconscious given that the green world is his way of dealing with his son's death. The red world is more complex. He saw his partner in a penguin suit and witnessed his boss murdering her lover. I think that this sequence is a dream in the red world and he will wake up still in prison. It is also more likely that the green world is a dream because when he did the bungee jump he spent several days in the red world but couldn't get back to the green world. The scene at the season finale where both his wife and Rex were there was a further psychotic break with reality.

All my interpretation though, I'm sure the writers weren't 100% sure where the next season would have gone.

Wow! I might have to download it and give it another go, if it's that complicated. Thanks for explaining!

i wondered if he died and as couldnt handle it had both worlds where one of his loved one died

Thanks StuntNun, that sounds plausible.

I had assumed from the beginning that the son was dead - not sure why really, maybe because of all the stuff about the son's girlfriend and being pregnant - the life with his wife just seemed more fleshed out than the world without his wife, but maybe if I watched it all again I'd think differently.

So I was assuming the finale (interesting it was filmed in advance) would be a 'reveal' and he would either have come to terms with his son being dead, or the twist would be that his wife was dead (at least it would have been a twist to me!)

But that's a really interesting take on it - that in the end he sees them together because he has a complete breakdown, and the bit about the dream within the real life. When he talked about maybe having had a dream I was really confused. I'm going to have to think about this a bit more! Might see if I can find a series blog, now you've persuaded me they didn't just give up in the end and there's a coherent story behind it. As a cliffhanger before a second series it would work whereas as a complete series ending it was really confusing.

I was finding it hard to imagine where a second series could go, but then if he woke up still in prison there could be the whole thing of clearing his name and getting justice, now his subconscious/dream has somehow revealed who was responsible.

I'm not as disappointed now!