First, let me go on record and say that the proposal made me emotional. It was the music, the words, the acting in the way Jen and Colin pulled this off, it was Emma’s growth as a character. All of it sort of collided into a perfect moment. I thought it represented the characters really well. And for a minute, there were no walls, or impending death.
But yes, there is that pesky secret, and last night, I thought of episode 6×05 when Killian went out to dispose of the shears and came back and what it is that he tells Emma about wanting her to have what she wants.
For me, that’s the parallel this season for Captain Swan. As usual, the characters have been flipped and the storyline is now practically the same on both ends. They even included Archie in it.
Emma was keeping a secret from her family that only Archie was privy to and she kept it for 5 episodes. During that time, she took a very big step forward in her relationship with Killian with this large secret and threat looming over her head.
In this half, Killian has a secret and though he doesn’t know the nature or what it is, Archie is once again the only one who knows about it. Killian actually called him to see if he could have an appointment, and had that happened, the odds were that Killian was going to spill his guts right then and there.
Killian said in 6×05 that he whatever Emma wanted, that’s what she would have, and he was very true to his word. She wanted him, she wanted the ring, she wanted to hear him ask her to marry him, so he gave her that, because there was no way he was going to turn her down.
And it’s something he wanted as badly as she did.
I think the moment was beautiful, especially when we consider that the last time they used that music was under completely different circumstances. And not for nothing, that moment back in 5×08 was the start of Emma keeping a doozie of a secret. So if anything, the writers have remained very true to the whole Emma and Killian mirror each other.
The moment Killian decided to “chose her happiness over his own release of guilt” (x)
I don’t want to put spoilers in the tags so witness my flail:
BUT YOU CAN ACTUALLY. FUCKING. SEE IT. Like look at that first gif?????????? Like it’s about a second after the blink. His right-hand eyebrow relaxes and raises a millimetre and his eyelid lowers a tiny bit and his mouth maybe? sort of? kind of twitches up at the corners but like…YOU CAN’T EVEN SEE IT REALLY? EVEN IF YOU’RE TRYING TO LOOK FOR IT? And that CHANGES THE WHOLE LOOK???? Like everything FUCKING SOFTENS and you can see that’s the moment he’s bewitched, overwhelmed, in awe, drowning in every fragment of love he’s ever held precious in his heart for her.
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