‘Breaking Bad’ series finale spoilers: Trying to find the meaning in ‘Felina’
AMC confirmed on Thursday every single episode title, writer, and director for the remaining episodes of “Breaking Bad.” There’s a lot of interesting details in here, even if the episode descriptions barely give away much of anything. (Therefore, it’s almost moot to really include them at all.)
From the standpoint of writing / directing, the biggest news is that Bryan Cranston directs “Blood Money,” which is the show’s first episode back on August 11. He is the only star of the show to get into the chair during these final eight episodes, and he has plenty of experience as a director already (including two previous installments of this show from earlier on in its run). Meanwhile, creator Vince Gilligan is listed as both the writer and the director for the series finale, which carries with it the title of “Felina.”
So what does “Felina” mean? The first thing worth pointing out here is that it is an anagram of the word “finale,” so this was chosen deliberately. Whether or not it is a name of a character or a place on the show remains to be seen, mostly because we don’t think that Gilligan would really try that hard to be cute when it comes to naming his characters something that correlated so directly to the end of the series.
In order, the titles for the remaining episodes are as follows: “Blood Money,” “Buried,” “Confessions,” “Rabid Dog,” “To’hajiilee,” “Ozymandias,” “Granite State,” and “Felina.” In case you are wondering, the Granite State happens to be New Hampshire, which is also the state ID that Walt showed the waitress at the start of season 5.
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MikeJPFreelance
September 2, 2013 @ 6:28 pm
Pretty sure I know…
Notice that the finale of season 5.1 (“Gliding Over All” ) could have been called “271”, the name of the Walt Whitman poem from which the actual title is derived. “Felina” is the elements Fe, Li, Na (as some people guessed), but that’s the easy part.
The title cards of Breaking Bad, like the periodic table, show the
atomic numbers of each element (in the green squares). So Fe=26, Li=03,
Na=11. So “Felina”, as a number is 260311. But Felina is an anagram for
Finale, so rearrange Felina (260311) to Finale (231106). Put the
half-finale and the finale numbers together, and you get 271, 231, and
106. These are three titles of poems from the Whitman book from Gale
that incriminated Walt. Ready for the answer? Drum roll, and… “Gliding
Over All, To a Pupil and to a Common Prostitute.” If you don’t think
this is a reference to Jesse and Wendy, the poem “To a pupil” references
Jesse’s idea about building a magnet, and the poem “To A Common
Prostitute” tells the prostitute to remember the speaker’s name.
Wordymofo
August 6, 2013 @ 11:25 am
In previous post I of course meant sodium!
Harm0niker
July 26, 2013 @ 9:26 pm
If the song’s lyrics are to be believed in terms of the plot, Walt will
kill a significant character (Hank? Jesse? Declan?) by the third episode
this season. This will necessitate him going on the run. Probably
first to the Najavo indian reservation alluded to in the 4th episode,
and then to New Hampshire. After some time in the Granite State, he’ll
be compelled to come back to ABQ to exact final vengeance for the
collapse of his empire. This may coincide with the return of his
cancer, as he will truly have nothing else to live for at that point.
The final episode will be a bloodbath, similar to Scarface, and Walt
will die.