He seemed surprised that Alan thought he was detached. If I recall correctly, when Charlie said he was detached, it lead to a spirited defence of detachment and a brotherly argument. I suppose from this, whatever it looked like in this episode, Don wasn't feeling detached.
I'm pretty sure you're right: Don seems surprised not by the concern, but by the fact that his attitude is coming across as detached. I really, really want to write deep-pov Don fic for this episode, because Don looks the way I do when I'm so caught up in trying to handle something, figure something out, put some new realization into action--he's not detached; all his energy is focused somewhere else.
Don has some new lines, and he's trying to figure out how to keep to them in real life. *hugs him very, very tightly*
This doesn't mean I don't agree with you entirely that Don should have talked to his team, to his family. In fact, theoriginalspy points out that this Don is very much like pre-therapy Don: not so much with the trusting his team. (Some of that makes sense, as he's reliving that particular case during this one; but otoh, Don! I thought you'd learned better!)
(Frankly I'm surprised that it appears Alan was keeping up with the maths up until then, and I'm a little sceptical about Charlie being seven, because that's probably early-university level maths in America, so I'd have thought he should have been closer to twelve).
I don't know much about math, but it is canon that Charlie had tutors from the time he was about 4, so...I don't know whether this is unrealistic or not.
I too am worried about the past tense Larry was using re: himself and Megan. Even if the topic was that old case...I really wanted a comment about him having talked to Megan, or something. :-(
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I'm pretty sure you're right: Don seems surprised not by the concern, but by the fact that his attitude is coming across as detached. I really, really want to write deep-pov Don fic for this episode, because Don looks the way I do when I'm so caught up in trying to handle something, figure something out, put some new realization into action--he's not detached; all his energy is focused somewhere else.
Don has some new lines, and he's trying to figure out how to keep to them in real life. *hugs him very, very tightly*
This doesn't mean I don't agree with you entirely that Don should have talked to his team, to his family. In fact, theoriginalspy points out that this Don is very much like pre-therapy Don: not so much with the trusting his team. (Some of that makes sense, as he's reliving that particular case during this one; but otoh, Don! I thought you'd learned better!)
(Frankly I'm surprised that it appears Alan was keeping up with the maths up until then, and I'm a little sceptical about Charlie being seven, because that's probably early-university level maths in America, so I'd have thought he should have been closer to twelve).
I don't know much about math, but it is canon that Charlie had tutors from the time he was about 4, so...I don't know whether this is unrealistic or not.
I too am worried about the past tense Larry was using re: himself and Megan. Even if the topic was that old case...I really wanted a comment about him having talked to Megan, or something. :-(