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Awake - New Kyle Killen post finale interview

26 May 2012

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Thanks to Folie-lex for the heads up.

TVLINE | Just to confirm: The season finale played out exactly as you always intended it, even knowing that renewal was looking iffy?
It really did. I mean, our ratings weren’t great, so there was some suspicion that we might not be back, but nobody had any idea what NBC would do. And literally, that last scene was something we had talked about from before the pilot was even written. Post-Lost, [network execs] are looking to make sure that you have flagpoles that you’re heading toward, and that was always our Season 1 flagpole.

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.”

TVLINE | I reckon those people are just trying make sense of the fact that both Hannah and Rex are alive in the final scene.
Right. For us, while it provided an uplifting and hopeful ending [to the season/series], it probably would have been a sign that he was getting worse. He had reached a place where he seemed to part with Hannah’s world, he seemed to sacrifice that to get the answers [to the conspiracy] that he did. Dr. Evans pointed that out to him, that he’s once again on that precipice of understanding and accepting. Instead, he does what he’s done from the beginning — and that’s where “turtles all the way down” comes from. Infinite regression. “What if I’m still in prison in the red world, and all the crazy stuff that happened after… was a dream? Even if one of these [worlds] is a dream, why can’t I have a dream within a dream?” Once he realized [he could], it’s as if he seemed to dream the thing he wanted more than anything — to be reunited with his wife and son

Source: Full Interview @ TV Line
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9 comments:

  1. laura334128 May 2012 at 20:35

    Yes i read this,this morning,very interesting...i would have loved a second season  :(

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  2. V_s28 May 2012 at 20:35

    Not sure I like the ideas of Tara becoming a love interest or Hannah becoming pregnant when they're already planning on adopting their grandchild though I would have loved to have seen the dream space played around with more in a potential Season 2.

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  3. V_s28 May 2012 at 20:38

    Who were the LOST alumni? Rex and who else?

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  4. Folie-lex28 May 2012 at 20:39

    Actually all the ideas they had for seasons to come really intrigued me, especially the way they opened up the door to the posibilities (no pun intended).

    Seeing as the show was about conflicitng realities, exploring all different scenerios under all the different circumstances I don't think delving into those storylines would have been a problem. In his mind it's all seperated so we, the audience could also view and approach them as seperated insidents and watch as Micheal deals with the psycolgical burden of having to keep everything in check.
    And to be honest, for me it's that which I feel we'll miss out on.
    But I'm still very happy that I can hold on to these 13 episodes as a completed story...

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  5. Folie-lex28 May 2012 at 20:39

    I'd read about the possibility of a Tara/Micheal romance and how that was planned as a S2 kind of a thing and that is easily my bigest loss for not getting a S2 (seriously I adored MMcM and JI chemistry, even from the few little scenes we did get!) because that conflict of having your wife and yet dreaming of another woman, or being with another woman while still dreaming about your wife was a storyline that I think would have offered some really juicy storytelling.

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  6. DarthLocke428 May 2012 at 20:40

    My bad, you're right! I mistook Steve Harris for Billy Duke, who played Warden Harris in "Every Man For Himself". 

    Francois Chau arm thing was so funny because in Lost 3 versions of himself have missing limbs (left arm, right arm, and hand) and in Alias "Katya" Derevko stabs his character's hands and asks him to contact "Mr. Kwan" (so close to Kwon, and I think  the guy who plays sun's father was in that episode of Alias too, Bryan Chung I think is his name?)

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  7. laura334128 May 2012 at 20:46

    It's been getting pretty warm here too,today upper 80's and tomorrow in the 90's and humid,its a little to warm no a lot to warm for me. I feel like we went from cold rainy weather right into summer,my house had central ac but now i only have a fan,hopefully i'll get one, one of these days...

     I'm trying to play catch up myself,reading, watching POI from the beginning, i missed so many during the season that i just taped them for the summer. There are a few other shows that i want to watch i'll get to them soon. I've also been doing a little gardening in the morning,and the mundane stuff,cooking and cleaning....

     Did you grow up on the farm? How many horses does your family have?My grandparents had a farm with the usual cows,ducks,chickens,
    roosters,and one horse. I didn't know horses were that sensitive to the heat? What do they do with the horses that race? I mean i know they walk  to cool them down,but do they wet them down too?  As you can see i don't know very much about horses!

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  8. laura334128 May 2012 at 20:47

      Your farm sounds wonderful! I always wanted to learn to ride,and i do know a little about Arabians,they are beautiful animals,very majestic,it's like they know their special! It must have been great growing up on a farm,with the horses,i spent a few summers in Massachusetts on my grandparents farm,i wish i appreciated it then the way i would love to have it now.Thinking back on it i had a ball,my farther is one of 11 children so i had a lot of cousins to play with,but mostly i liked watching things grow,whether it be the fruit,veggies,or the animals! The rabbits and chicks grew fast,and just running through the fields after the butterfly's and lighting bugs were wonderful...

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  9. DarthLocke428 May 2012 at 20:57

    I really liked it. And I was pretty much on board that his experience comes from being in a coma, but I would have liked to have thought that at the end of the series (should of it continued), his exploration of his reality, through several realities would have also given him the truths of why he and his family may have in fact been targeted and car accident happened. It would have also been neat if his Rex, Hannah or somehow Hawkins were in commas too, because the series could have used "mass coma" = collected conscience kind of thing.

    There were so many little fun references to Bad Robot too! From Kevin Weissman, crazy people named Kate, to "John Cooper", to two of  main the cast members being LOST alumni, another F.C. having an interesting part that not only mirrored his former LOST and Alias personas, but additionally placed him in role similar to Sun and Jin's, and the Fringe reference to "Westfeild", let alone LOST and FRINGE play with identity and reality in very similar fashion. 

    I loved that scene where he was walking out of prison and his shrinks where having it out with each other!

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