It's so beautiful because after all the "I won't mend this; I want you to say you want me back first" stuff they'd been trading back and forth over the course of 2-3 episodes, when it comes to the final words he gets to say to her (he assumes), it's just the purest form of truth. No games. No attempts to hold out so she'll give back to him. Just how he's always felt about her.
And, it's a much truer "I love you" than the first one we got, not that he didn't mean that one just as sincerely in the moment, just that this one is proven in a way that Elizabeth simply *can't* doubt. He's choosing to sacrifice himself and give her their children. There is no more selfless way he could prove it's "real" to him too, and I think that would be the moment it all really changes for her.
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It's so beautiful because after all the "I won't mend this; I want you to say you want me back first" stuff they'd been trading back and forth over the course of 2-3 episodes, when it comes to the final words he gets to say to her (he assumes), it's just the purest form of truth. No games. No attempts to hold out so she'll give back to him. Just how he's always felt about her.
And, it's a much truer "I love you" than the first one we got, not that he didn't mean that one just as sincerely in the moment, just that this one is proven in a way that Elizabeth simply *can't* doubt. He's choosing to sacrifice himself and give her their children. There is no more selfless way he could prove it's "real" to him too, and I think that would be the moment it all really changes for her.