I know, I am like a month and a half late to the party, and I’m not sure if someone already said this...but, remember a few weeks ago when we were all flipping out about Hera telling Kanan “I love you” and thinking it was for the first time because she started the sentence off by saying, “I know what to say now.” followed by Kanan’s pained laugh afterwards.
Well... I have watched that episode multiple times since then and after seeing the finale, I have come to the conclusion that Hera only said “I know what to say now” in regards to her previous comments with Kanan as soon as he finished scaling the Lothal Imperial Complex.
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Once they were done scaling the walls, Hera rolled over and said to Kanan, “You’ve always been there for me, whenever I needed you.”
And Kanan, still trying to catch his breath replied, “Well, that’s the job, isn’t it?”
And Hera, sternly, replied, “No. That is not what I’m saying.” ---Before almost falling off the roof.
Kanan catches her and asks, “What are you saying?”
But by then a very drugged Hera gets distracted by the gliders and the subject is dropped.
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Cut to the fuel supply scene and Hera, coming more to her senses now that the truth serum has worn off, she rushes up to him and says, “I know what to say now. I love you.”
The biggest spot of deception is when Kanan laughs it off as the truth serum talking, and we all assumed it was because Hera had never said those words to him before---BUT, now I’m thinking that he only laughed it off BECAUSE she was high on truth serum, and it was making her say that to him right then and there.
He laughed because it was a random thing to say when they were fleeing in mortal danger, and Hera normally wouldn’t randomly confess her love to him in such a stressful situation.
And the second line of deception was when Hera said “I know what to say now”.
She only said that because she was trying to find the words “I love you” back on the Imperial Complex, and due to the truth serum, she was unable to think of the words. As soon as she could, she said them, and only now am I realizing that it was definitely not the first time she confessed her love, but it was surely the strangest way she’d ever done so.
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That’s my two bits about it. I keep seeing people say things about how it was the first time she “finally” told him she loved him, and I don’t think that’s really what we were supposed to see.
It was super easy for us to assume based on the wording of the two deceptive factors in that conversation, but looking back, it’s easier to see between the lines of it and figure out what was actually being said/felt by the characters.
