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Wyatt did the exact same thing when he checked on Lucy after she was stabbed and suffering from a 105 degree fever in 2x04

Lucy complaining about her underwired bra was when Timeless caught my attention - the following through was a little eeehhhh/plot devicey but her calling it out was such a great attention to detail!

‘Are you wearing a woman’s jumper?’ Shifting aesthetic attitudes even in the space of thirty or so changes that are not noticeable when experiencing regular passage of time.

‘Why is that man wearing pyjamas?’ The overall attitude and form, driven by globalisation, mass market and cheap ready to wear clothing means that dress now is obscenely casual, driven by comfort and practicality and cost.

Lucy trying to loose her hat or head covering at every available opportunity because they are not normal or comfortable or necessary in the C21st (and also directors and DOP’s fucking hate hats on screen because they fight the actor’s face for dominance, and so if you see a historical piece with shoddy and inaccurate hate representation, don’t blame the costume dept. I guarantee that they fought to get that thing on someone’s head.)

When we were introduced to Mason’s costume store in S1 I died of happiness (your organisational methods and general garment care is dubious af though, my guys. Let a pro sort that shit out.) Typically, though, that would be established and then just handwaved away for the rest of the show because they’ve done that now. But they kept visiting it, picking out clothes, complains about styles, Jiya helping Lucy with unwieldy underpinnings. The fact that they were trying to stop history being changed carries over to how they present

And then it goes boom. Oh well. But then S2 quickly establishes stealing clothes as a part of the mission routine. Steal clothes, get a car, then get on with shit. Week in week out, mission by mission that’s what they do. Again, regular shows would handwave over this. But this show highlights it and occasionally shows it (The General, Lucy hangs a dress back on a line bc she was trying options; in Reagan/Christopher ep Jiya goes crazy in a dept store) (this deleted scene.) With thievery comes discrepancies that highlight an emphasis on cohesive story telling through the entire Mis-en-scene, not just obsessing over keeping the lead glamorous: Sometimes things don’t fit quite right; sometime Lucy’s dress isn’t lying right because she’s got the wrong underpinnings on (stays would be washed maybe a few times a year; chances of them finding them on a line are slim to none). Things aren’t lying right bc the boys don’t get tie-on sleeves or the correct neck wrappings or. Tiny little details that, while general accuracy may be a little iffy in places, shows a lot of very careful thought from costume that is being acknowledged and allowed by the rest of production.

Obv Flynn always looks amazing bc 1) how dare he with his face and 2) the man is a tree, I guarantee that 90% of his stuff is made. But. MAJOR professional respect to the costume dept. TV schedules are difficult at the best of time, and when you’re doing different period pieces every ep with maybe two weeks prep, that is a LOT.

I do gots concerns tho:

1) What do they do with their contemporary clothes? Do they go back to the lifeboat to dump them? Does Rufus have a n infinite supply of hoodies?

2) Do they know how expensive clothes were before the mid C20th????? They could straight up bankrupt people with the clothes that they’re stealing!

3)DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH EFFORT LAUNDRY WAS BACK THEN, FLYNN?? Stop wiping your sicky mouth on these poor people’s clean clothes.

THESE TWO LITERALLY WEAR THE SAME HALF GRIN AS THEY STARE ACTUAL HEART EYES AT EACH OTHER WITH TEARS FROM ACROSS THE ROOM.

here you have wyatt, having been told that he was being replaced because he wasn’t able to do his job, essentially being forced to abandon his team, thrust into a situation where he knows that every single person around him is going to die.  causing him to have flashbacks of a very similar military mission gone wrong.

he’s completely convinced that not only must he stay there to die, but that he has nothing to live for.  everyone he’s loved or cared about is gone.

and lucy, who has come home to a life that doesn’t resemble her own, whose sister no longer exists, has found that although terrifying, she feels more at home with her team than she does in her actual home.

and here’s wyatt saying that he doesn’t want to come home either, that he’s just going to be erased from her life as well.  that he wants to essentially die to make sure that she has the time to get out.

and in that moment she realizes that she can’t lose him.  he’s the one she trusts.  he’s the one she needs, and so he relents.  he comes with them.  because lucy wanted him to.

starting a trend that not only keeps the alamo promise alive, but that has him surrendering his darkest thoughts, his training instincts for lucy, to keep her safe, not out of obligation but because he cares for her.

when lucy stands in between wyatt and flynn in red scare, saying how caught up in their grief they all are, that they need to stop focusing on the past, turning  to wyatt, she asks him if he trusts her.

she’d already told him at the alamo that he was the one she trusted, and here she was asking him to do the same, to trust her.  and even with flynn pointing a gun at them, he trusts her enough that he lowers his first.

later on, when they have to separate, he claims he’s already lost her once, he can’t lose her again.  because unlike before, he now has something to lose, and he doesn’t want to live without her.  and once again, trusting the other, he tells her to be careful.

only to then lose her again when she’s taken by rittenhouse.

this time lucy convinced that she has lost everything, and willing to die.

only to be reunited again, with a promise from lucy that she hasn’t lost everything.

and then in hollywoodland, you have the infamous pool scene, in which they both admit that they essentially saved each other’s lives, because they stopped caring…until the found each other.  and now they had something…someone to care about.

which is only reiterated later in the episode when they’re standing in front of the alamo scenery from the movie texas, and she echoes his words from red scare back to him.  “be careful.”

the callback to the very first time that lucy had admitted that she needed him, when he thought no one cared.  and now, here they were, in front of another alamo, having just admitted the night before that they both needed each other, in every way.

lucy had said in red scare that they needed to put the past behind them, that that was the only way they could move forward to bring down rittenhouse.  and then only after wyatt lowered his gun and they separated did they reunite again with her grandfather, just the two of them with a possible solution.

in the same way that the past came back with jessica, and it was only when he let go of that, on that wall, admitting he was wrong, that he was sorry, that he loved her…in front of the same fan they admitted they had each other…

did the future once again present itself with a possible solution…

the two of them.  together.

because he’s the one she trust.  he’s the one she needs.

and she’s the one he loves.

and they’re endgame.

REMEMBER THE ALAMO.

Lucy and Wyatt are SO in love with each other that they make themselves cry.

They literally have watery eyes and tears at the corners because the love they feel is so intense, pure and genuine that they can’t handle it. 

LOOK AT THAT. THEIR EYES ARE LITERALLY REDDENING, EXACTELY LIKE WHEN YOU’RE THIS CLOSE TO START CRYING BECAUSE THE EMOTION IS TOO OVERWHELMING.