# Awake canceled **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awake-canceled/622294 "2012-05-18T06:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awake-canceled/622294/61 "2012-05-26T14:11:55Z")
> [@Meltdown](#): > > His son did have a line – something like “today is registration.” Now, I’ve long since forgotten the first episode (and it has long since been deleted from my DVR), but was there any reference to some kind of registration (I’m assuming school, but not necessarily) happening on the day of the accident? I remembered that line too, and it seemed like an unusual nugget of information to drop. I took a look back at episode 11 (“Say Hello to my Little Friend”) and both the mom and kid are wearing pullover hoodies in the accident flashbacks, but that doesn’t rule out that wasn’t the same day. I can’t remember either if they ever mentioned what time of year it was when it occured, but if it had been 6 mos in Michael’s experience, then it seems reasonable he could’ve taken his son to registration that day, since school was already in session when the show began. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awake-canceled/622294/62 "2012-05-26T14:37:19Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I just watched the finale, and I haven’t seen this interpretation yet: > > Wasn’t he returned to the very day of the car accident, but now armed with all the foreknowledge of his hit and the heroin conspiracy? His son’s shirt in that final scene looked very familiar, wasn’t that what his son was wearing in the accident? I thought that too. Especially because he said something to his shrink about going back in time and fixing everything. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awake-canceled/622294/63 "2012-05-26T14:57:54Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > I thought that too. Especially because he said something to his shrink about going back in time and fixing everything. Ahh, nice catch. ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awake-canceled/622294/64 "2012-05-28T13:32:20Z")
Is it my imagination, or did the soundtrack quote Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awake-canceled/622294/65 "2012-05-29T23:29:34Z")
Don’t really have much to say about the finale, but I did want to say it was weird that they bothered to bill Rex’s tennis instructor as a regular when she disappeared completely about a third of the way into the season. I kept expecting that she was going to turn back up and actually do something important. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awake-canceled/622294/66 "2012-05-30T01:36:47Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Don’t really have much to say about the finale, but I did want to say it was weird that they bothered to bill Rex’s tennis instructor as a regular when she disappeared completely about a third of the way into the season. I kept expecting that she was going to turn back up and actually do something important. Maybe we would have seen a lot more of her if the show got a second season. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awake-canceled/622294/67 "2012-05-30T01:58:34Z")
The impression I got was that they were essentially going for a Quantum Leap type ending. The protagonist in a moment of desperation is thrust into a reality bending journey that is beyond his conscious control but perhaps is influenced by his subconscious needs. Having finally resolved his basic goals, he learns to consciously choose his new path. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awake-canceled/622294/68 "2012-05-30T03:16:45Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > The impression I got was that they were essentially going for a Quantum Leap type ending. The protagonist in a moment of desperation is thrust into a reality bending journey that is beyond his conscious control but perhaps is influenced by his subconscious needs. Having finally resolved his basic goals, he learns to consciously choose his new path. That’s kind of interesting. Do away with the whole one reality and one dream thing, and instead have him leaping into different versions of himself in different realities. Still not sure a season of that would be very successful, but it probably wold be better than what we got. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awake-canceled/622294/69 "2012-05-30T04:01:41Z")
Thanks, everyone, for telling me what happened in the finale. Sheesh. I now have no regrets about ditching the show pretty early on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awake-canceled/622294.md?page=3)