Awake

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:50 pm

Anybody catch the pilot or 1st episode? Hopefully they go all Lynch-ian on us but I'm pretty sure that's not the writers intentions.

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:10 pm

After reading the interviews with the shows head and various writers wear they basically laid out that one will be reality and the other a dream, I couldn't pull a death of the author and completely write them out. I guess I will only feel redemption in this show is if his grieving causes him to lose sanity and make the world we think is a dream into the actual real world and cause the real life death of his other family member(son or wife)

the reveal at the end of the last episode was pretty good, there had to be a cover up and i read on a couple message boards there are some repeating numbers, 55, 611.

Psychosis · Post by **Psychosis** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 12:25 am

I want to watch this, but the ratings are already pretty low. I'm afraid it might get cancelled. I don't want to get screwed like I did with FlashForward.

perfectprism · Post by **perfectprism** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:07 am

thanks for putting me onto this, i enjoyed the first two. the lead actor really pulls the show together and in general the complicated premise is handled deftly. good acting, writing and characters all around, although the wife bothers me. not sure how I feel about the whole serial/single plotline mashup alot of shows do these days, but this gave me slight LOST pangs. I'm gonna at least DVR the rest of them to help out with the ratings.

Did flashforward get good before they cancelled? I watched the first 3 or 4 but couldn't make it any farther than that.

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:41 am

perfectprism wrote:thanks for putting me onto this, i enjoyed the first two. the lead actor really pulls the show together and in general the complicated premise is handled deftly. good acting, writing and characters all around, although the wife bothers me. not sure how I feel about the whole serial/single plotline mashup alot of shows do these days, but this gave me slight LOST pangs. I'm gonna at least DVR the rest of them to help out with the ratings.

Did flashforward get good before they cancelled? I watched the first 3 or 4 but couldn't make it any farther than that.

there were episodes here and there, where it seemed like they were getting somewhere good, but overall it was pretty bad and deserved to get cancelled IMO

awake has been okay so far, it seems like they went way too far in the beginning episode, like they could have had the crash not be until episode 3 or 4, its like shows have to be very revealing way too soon in order to get people invested right away

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:28 pm

The 1st episode where the procedural aspect actually was pretty good, like I said since they revealed this ain't some type of parallel universe/schroedingers cat type scenario the only way this pays off is if his 'dream world' ends up fucking up his 'real world'

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:18 pm

after LOST, i really have no desire to hear what the writers/creators/directors/producers have to say about whats going to happen, especially when the point of the show is supposed be mysterious, i think you should just let the show speak for itself

CrabOne · Post by **CrabOne** » Sun Mar 18, 2012 7:33 am

Interesting serie but I'll wait to finish the season. When I saw the first episode of other new series like (walking dead, fringe...) the 1st episode was interesting and now It's a piece of shit...

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:47 am

whats with the tennis coach being all up in their business, is she going to go for the dad or the son? also im pretty sure coaches arent allowed to drive around kids and hang out at their house and such

also, the former partner who ends up being bad is pretty overused

perfectprism · Post by **perfectprism** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:18 pm

I want to keep watching this show but I can't get over how easily they could figure out what is real and what is a dream by just going to to his fucking house. It's too weird to get over that the wife and son both essentially exist in a vacuum.

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:49 pm

perfectprism wrote:I want to keep watching this show but I can't get over how easily they could figure out what is real and what is a dream by just going to to his fucking house. It's too weird to get over that the wife and son both essentially exist in a vacuum.

What do you mean they can just go to his house? This is more like sliding doors than anything.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:52 pm

I'm waiting for one psychiatrist to call the other, but that would probably violate some sort of HIPPA act.

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:03 pm

Oh your talking about cross referencing characters from the two realities, I think that comes into play the next episode.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:09 pm

I thought of this after I had already deleted the pilot off my DVR so I couldn't reference it.
Remember when the guy is at his home screaming for his wife, searching all over the house for her? He ends up in his son's bedroom and finds a knife and slices his hand. His wife finds him and bandages him up. What I failed to pay attention to was, did he have his hand bandaged in scenes with his son after that incident?

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:08 am

perfectprism wrote:I want to keep watching this show but I can't get over how easily they could figure out what is real and what is a dream by just going to to his fucking house. It's too weird to get over that the wife and son both essentially exist in a vacuum.

no, in each reality, his son or his wife would be there

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:42 pm

I was waiting for a character to take on two different personalities in his dreams, in the pilot or 1st episode does he see wilmer valderama's character in his dead son reality?

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:21 am

i like this 2 dollar bill guy as his nemesis who knows all about him

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:29 am

Finally the surrealism begins...

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 12:18 pm

I'm hoping as he descends deeper into madness his dual worlds become even more 'lynchian'

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri May 25, 2012 12:29 pm

Decent enough way to wrap up the show, I thought Killen would've tightened it up a bit seeing as he knew this was cancelled but he went with the original season finale he had planned.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Fri May 25, 2012 12:40 pm

I haven't watched the last 3 episodes. I'm going to this weekend even though I know it's been canceled. I really did like this show and thought it was very well written.

Tweak Da Leak · Post by **Tweak Da Leak** » Fri May 25, 2012 1:09 pm

Dan wrote:I haven't watched the last 3 episodes. I'm going to this weekend even though I know it's been canceled. I really did like this show and thought it was very well written.

Pretty much, this was a lot more satisfying sticking to than The Killing has turned out to be.

Dan · Post by **Dan** » Sun May 27, 2012 9:16 pm

I have one episode left and now I'm really mad this show is done. That penultimate episode was incredibly strong. Will watch the finale tomorrow and know I will be saddened that there will be no more.

perfectprism · Post by **perfectprism** » Mon May 28, 2012 3:09 pm

so, the verdict is a thumbs up in general? I loved the surrealistic/lynchian or whatever the fuck aspects of it but was afraid of the serial aspect. I liked the writing alot too.

It was pretty much a given that a show with strong writing, good acting and an interesting premise would be cancelled. I feel bad for not watching now

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Mon May 28, 2012 8:37 pm

ending was decent, last episode was definitely more stylized, the whole series should have been that way