Awake

[luna_manar]

I don't think there's anything in the plot of "Awake" so far that can't be explained by my whole theory about the show: That he's the one who got hurt in the car crash. His wife and kid are fine, but he's unconscious and fighting for his life, and both dreams are representative of that.

I base this off the fact that each important character in each reality serves a consistent, specific purpose. Each doctor serves to challenge and support him in different ways, each partner serves to be a different type of confidante (old buddy and young sidekick), and every inconsistency in each reality (such as Dr. Lee being in the building with him, then claiming not to have been) feels a lot like the mental rearranging I do when I realize a plot point I made up is too convenient or too forced for the rest of the story.

Almost all the details he shouldn't know but does are things you could reasonably overhear in a hospital room: the bill of rights on the TV, drug information about Ketamine, etc. Most other things he can make up, and it doesn't matter if he's correct or not. I'll be interested to see, if he moves to Oregon with his wife, whether Portland actually looks like Portland (I've been there) or if it just looks like Random City.

Comments

[davv]

I haven't seen Awake, but the way you describe it, it makes me think of Life on Mars (which I guess you haven't seen!).

[luna_manar]

I haven't seen any version of Life on Mars, although I have heard of it. The premises sound similar, although Awake so far is only focusing on the idea that one or the other of his realities is a dream (it hasn't been suggested yet that both might be).