Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
"Now go and get her..."
While the cancellation of Awake still stings, at least we can all celebrate this gut-wrenching (in some parts, literally) series finale, "Turtles All the Way Down." With a title inspired by a story from Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, regarding a woman who believed the world was flat and perched on the back of a turtle (and that THAT turtle stood on, well, more turtles), this final episode was thrilling, frustrating and fascinating.
And so much for my theory about one of the versions of Harper possibly finding to her conscience. All season, in the Red World, she seemed overly sympathetic to Britten's tragedy; even trying her best on several occasions to convince Carl not to kill him. But from the very outset of this episode, that began with Harper and not Britten, it was clear that she was only going to be out for self-preservation in both worlds. And it was great to start things off with her in the Green World since that was the reality with the least amount of ongoing conspiracy.
And while he Green World became the one where Harper wound up reaching out to Britten as a friend, it was the Red World, where she'd shown the most empathy this season, where she transformed into a diabolical villain. And it's the Red World where Britten, unfortunately, took a great fall. Last week I said that one of the challenges of the finale would be finding a way to get Britten out of a tight jam in both worlds. Well, it looks like they settled for just one. And how terrible was it to see Hannah, crying over an arrested Britten? A Britten doomed to forever go down as an insane murderer who will spend the rest of his life in a mental institution? Man, that really freakin' got me.
And by the end, he even sounded damn crazy to me! Who could blame any of them (save for Harper of course)? So now the Red World becomes the reality that we all desperately . Because we don't want to think that Vega turned him in. We don't want to know that Britten figured out it was Harper too late. We want to now think that world was the dream that helped give him clues to catch Harper in the real Green World.
And if it weren't for the fact that Britten's mind totally collapsed in on itself - twice! - we could use that theory as a solution/coping mechanism. Because that "dream within a possible dream," where a penguin-suited Vega got to show Britten the murder in the motel room, damn sure allowed him to return to the Green World and get the payback that he failed so miserably to get in the Red World. And it was awesome to see him face Harper once more, now with all the anger and rage built up from his experience in the Red World. A world where he if they hadn't pulled his hands off her throat.
Also, did anyone else think their cable or satellite fritzed out when Dr. Evans froze?
And so, right when we all got a somewhat suitable answer as to which reality was the real one, and Dr. Evans had just gotten through telling Britten that he was finally "seeing this other world for the dream it's always been," Britten had to go and doubt it. Because he still felt so empty over not catching Harper in the other world. Because to him both places felt equally valid. So he called "the rules" into question. Which caused another schizoid embolism of sorts. And gave us that perversely-happy ending that either meant that the entire series had been a ruse (doubtful) or that he'd finally succumbed to madness. Personally, as tragic as it seems, the latter is my preference. And while this final chapter left us all with loads of questions, I also can't fully imagine the show from here.
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