i will never stop loving how dr stone gives us a stoic supergenius protagonist who's always idolizing science and logic and stuff and then instead of going the easy route and using that framework of cold logic to make him some aloof holier-than-thou figure who's above such petty things as "emotions" and "friendship" the show goes no! senku is actually a deeply compassionate person because that is in fact the logical conclusion to come to. there is no such thing as a lone genius. science is a collaborative effort, built upon the shoulders of those who came before. all of senku's vast mountains of knowledge would amount to absolutely nothing if it wasn't backed up by taiju's strength, yuzuriha and kaseki's crafting skills, chrome's ingenuity, the practical experience of people like ukyo and ryusui, the many individual skills of each and every person in the kingdom of science, the tens of thousands of years of human progress it took to build up those stores of knowledge in the first place, and the eternal faith and support of his father byakuya. every action senku takes is not simply borne out of devotion to science, but out of devotion to this specific understanding of science - the understanding that scientific progress is inextricably linked to society itself and that one cannot exist without the other. senku may be the smartest man alive (not to mention the de facto leader of humanity's remains), but he still recognizes that he is only a single man, no more or less important to humanity's survival than anyone around him.

You know, for me, the thing that really proves Olly's deep seated love and devotion towards Quifrey isn't the fact that he always forgives him (i think most people would, given the circumstance). Rather, it's the fact that he is always paying such close attention to Quifrey that he keeps figuring out all Quifrey's deepest and darkest secrets over and over, despite the immense effort put into hiding it. We talk a lot about how much Quifrey loves Olly (which he undoubtably does), but for me, there is such deep, romantic yearning in the fact that while Quifrey's attention is on many things (the brimhats, his students, his goals); Olly's attention is mostly on Quifrey. From the time they were kids, Quifrey had a goal and a purpose, he was always walking towards something. Olly, on the other hand, was always walking towards Quifrey - both emotionally and physically.