i am SO TIRED of romantic narratives where the climax is the couple finally getting together. i want a story where the couple gets together towards the beginning and then stays together through the end. whatâs the point of making me want a certain romance if i canât watch that romance actually happen after it starts?? people falling in love can be great and all but you know what? sometimes i also want them to STAY IN LOVE, like⌠i donât want mutual pining, i donât want wistful gazes, i donât want âwill they or wonât they,â i want two people who are in love, theyâre together, and they handle shit together
I trod to find the pool scene for so long so I could send it to my friend cause I was fangirling over Timeless and Lyatt and I couldnât find the scene for the life of me so I just screen recorded it đ and I figured I would post it here too in case anyone else has a similar problem
I LOVE that Wyatt said âI should have said this a long time agoâ in the âI love youâ confession. Hes telling her that this isnât a new revelation that hes had. Hes known how he feels for a while through all the angst, all the pushing away Lucy did, all the feelings of obligation, all the times Lucy told Wyatt he loved Jessica. He loved her through everything and it never changed or went away for him.
Wyatt Logan, you guys. Wyatt âYou havenât lost me, Nothing ahead but the open road, You saved my life, I love you Lucyâ Logan.Â
Listen, before I even get started on my thoughts on Wyattâs âI love you, Lucyâ, I already know Iâm going to be an incomprehensible mess because my heart is too full, too raw with emotions to properly put words together. So, Iâm sorry. Also, get comfy because this is a long one.Â
This moment. This moment had and continues to have me curled up in a ball in the corner, grieving for how much pain and loss that Wyatt has gone through, what Lucy has gone through, and for the horrible guilt that I know is settling in his stomach as these two sit together on the dirty floor of the bunker. They both are so broken, so hurt, so lost and I just want to hold them and tell them it will be okay. Timeless Season 2 has done so much with Wyattâs character and itâs pretty fucking amazing how they handled him.Â
Yes, I was beyond pissed with the way Wyatt was treating Lucy in episode 9, but all of his stupid, idiotic, ass-hat choices and words eventually lead up to the moment. Yes, Wyatt is a dumbass and sorta deserved to have everything blow up in his face, but I truly believe that all of this has made him come out so much stronger as a character, as a man. He still has a long way to go and needs some serious groveling to make things better for Lucy and for himself. But he will get there, because he is Wyatt Logan, a man who has a heart of gold and really is trying his best to do what is right in situation where he has to choose between two wrongs.Â
But all of Wyattâs faults and mistakes build him up to say the words that so desperately needed to be said. His âI love youâ isnât just about Lyatt; itâs for Rufus, for Jiya, for Lucy, for himself. His denial of this universal truth has caused so much pain for the people he loves and Rufus even reminds him of that fact before they jumped to save Jiya. In the midst of Jessica returning, Wyatt had forgotten who his real family was, who had stood by him and continue to stand by him even when heâs being a complete dumbass. He had forgotten who had saved him. It wasnât Jessica. It was a quirky scientist and a clumsy historian that pulled him out of his grief and gave him a reason to live, something to fight for. And the moment before those four words slip from his mouth, Wyatt truly understood the extent of damage he has caused, and what he needs to do to set things right with the people who love him as fiercely as he loves them.Â
So the Wyatt that sits next to a broken and battered Lucy has truly lost everything; he has lost his best friend, the unbreakable trust his team had in him, Jessica and the idea a perfect life with her, and yes, to some extent, he lost Lucy, the person who had given him a reason to live, who has been nothing but understanding and loving towards him. But in it all, Wyatt had lost himself, the man who became better because of Rufus Carlin and Lucy Preston.
His obsession with Jessicaâs death and her return had made him lose sight on the people who changed him into a man heâd be proud to be. And we really do see that since Jess returnâs, Wyatt is often physically and mentally separated/detached from the rest of the team.Â
So here he is, besides Lucy underneath the fan that spins round and round, a subtle reminder that time will heal wounds; time will heal them. He tells Lucy how everything is his fault. How his selfishness and his blindness to the truth have cost the life of Rufus, his teammate, his friend, his brother. And heâs ready for Lucy to agree; heâs prepared to hear how guilty he should feel and how much he has let her down, let them all down. But that isnât who Lucy is, and she tells him that Rufusâs death is not on him, encouraging Wyatt that he did what he could and he still saved Jiya.Â
And we see Wyattâs face, the tears swelling up in his eyes as he chokes out those words that he has buried so deep in his heart for so long. Those words he never allowed himself to say when he should have a long, long time ago. And yet, he says it with such certainty, with such truth and vulnerability. Because even now, even after everything, after hurting her, after being the complete disaster that he is, Lucy is there comforting him when it should be the other way around; and her kindness, her patience, her ability to forgive and love, her goodness in this moment and in all of her moments pull those words straight from his heart. Because even after he has lost everything, the one thing he knows is real, the one thing that canât be taken away from him, the one thing he has never doubted even in the midst of Jessâs return is that he loves Lucy Preston; he loves her without a single shadow of a doubt. She is his will to keep fighting, to keep living. Wyatt loves Lucy and that is something no one can make him forget, not even himself.Â
Both my OTPâs first âI love youâ are pretty similar to me. Both happen in such raw emotional moments. Both only have one person saying it with tears in there eyes but you donât doubt for a second the other feels the exact same way. They both had just gone through unimaginable pain and angst, with CS where they were separated and Killian was killed, and with Lyatt and the whole wife back from the dead, impossible situation, thing. You have both Wyatt and Emma knowing they should have said it earlier to their respective loves. You have the other person shocked and then a moment that interrupts everything. And just the two ships in general: both men lost the women they love and were on emotional âi donât care about anythingâ journeys(rampages) not caring if they lived or died. Then they meet these two women who give them hope and light, who show them a better way and fall head over heels for them(and vice versa). You see them finally letting go of their pasts to have a future.