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How the Breaking Bad finale lied to you (and why you were so easily fooled)
I loved the "Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge" reference, but what nobody seems to have mentioned thus far is that the title of the episode "Felina", (while an anagram for "Finale") was an obvious reference to the muse in the Marty Robins song "El Paso" which Walt plays in that car as this fantasy develops. Through the story of the song, The main character is in love with Wicked Felina from Rosie's Cantina and murders another cowboy that had been vying for her affections in a jealous rage . The song goes on to see our hero fleeing across the land with a posse on his trail... but he escapes. However, his love is so strong for this Mexican maiden that he must return to El Paso. He "feels the bullet go deep in his side" as he makes it to Rosie's backdoor and with one final kiss to his beloved, (the bloody handprint on the meth lab condenser) he says goodbye and dies... The verse in the song that Walt hears as he starts the car miraculously, are the moments when the hero decides to go riding back to certain death... but it cuts to the title sequence right as he's about to reveal where he is "on the hill overlooking ("El Paso")... possibly another subtle reference to where Walt really is... staring into the abyss...— October 1, 2013 12:26 p.m.