Um..Hi‽ I'm new to the fandom, I know I'm late but...I want to say my lil opinion to that line.
I know, everyone know that Ozzie LOVE Eddie, in a not platonic way, seriously, He give him he's heart, he's soul, he's revenge and in the end (for now) he's eye, He would give him anything and even more.
Now my point is that that's was a shield from Oz and I hope you will agree with me...
When Oz said " I love you", the answer was a shoot in the stomach. When he had the chance to kill him he just frozen it. When he was afraid of saying that three words phrase and obligated himself to say "I trust you", the answer was a betrayal, when he tried to resuscitate him, the answer was that Strange let him believe Ed is dead...results, Ed think Oz know what happen to him and try to kill Oz again, when he stay for Gotham saying "I'm following my heart" Ed answer with the "following your heart has never worked out for you", and when he say "I'll miss you, Edward" to "the dog"...he was doing the exact thing when the "we are brothers" phrase came out...He just protect himself from the nth heartbroken/betrayal, I think he was tired of set himself up to be just hurt in response, so he put a barrier up, but the HUG say everything we want to hear and see
Cause brothers can stab each other without thinking one second, but TRUE LOVE can block you to do the worst error in your life (for Ed second worst error, first the shoot at the pier, we know *thanks to the red light and seductive show* the real intention of Ed😏)
That's my opinion, sorry if I'm late to the fandom, really late...aaaaand to be onest, I didn't see the show, but I see as many scene I can reach of nygmobblepot, so here I am at 11:40 pm writing this post... Goodnight everyone!