We got your daddy issues, underdog to glory, fight song, the stoic, more daddy issues, great depression, adaptation distillation, big damn kiss, almight janitor, you want hidden depths? oh we got 'em all in stock, asshole jocks hidden relationship between stroke and cox *ahem* who said that?? and that's just about the first 45 minutes

Bobby "What-Is-Don's-Personal-Space" Moch

Nope, that Bobby and/or Don chose to sit next to each other on the bus doesn't make me giddy as a schoolgirl (and they're not sitting in their boat order because Joe is sitting beside Roger, and they're 7 and 1),

No, it absolutely doesn't make me feral about the choice to place Bobby between Don and the girl. Bobby could have sat on the other side of Don - there's enough room, and it would make it harder for the girl to overhear anything they were saying (it's not like Bobby is quiet). It would also have continued to show the gulf between Don and her, a gulf he doesn't seem inclined to close.

But oooooh no, Bobby plants himself between the girl with her eye on Don and his stroke.

It absolutely doesn't make me feral that Bobby's pep talk never mentions girls in general or the bench girl in specific. It can be inferred that girls are what he's implying Don's best shot is with that night, but he never says it. Nor does he tell Don to speak to Bench-Girl, and when Don flatly refuses, Bobby actively removes Don from her presence. In fact, he removes Don from the clutches of any girl, while handily being able to get his hands all over him (Bobby gets the stool for the piano and, well, someone had to get it under Don's ass and thighs....)

Bobby planted the flag of Moch on that rower on day one and who can blame him

I feel robbed of a scene of Don playing piano with Joe accompanying on banjo in his natty stripey socks

Give me Callum Turner playing banjo damnit