it's your ship now, captain

I'm sorry, but this is so funny to me. He thinks that any chance of any kind of good in that building started when she walked in, that her Cola ribs are better than anything he's ever made, that she's everything he's never gonna be. He believes in her more than he believes in himself. That man puts her on a pedestal. She can do no wrong. He does what she explicitly tells him to, like, 98% of the time, throughout the whole show. But then Mr. Sistine Chapel looks at her silly doodles, and when he realizes they're supposed to be plates, he lets out the most honest, most underwhelmed and slightly disappointed 'Oh,' and it's taking me out. He's really not trying to be an asshole, but this might be the first time he's known her that he's not impressed by her, and I'm eating it up. ((In his next scene, in the next episode, the first thing he says to Richie is, "You think I'm doing the wrong thing, leaving?" And I know it has nothing to do with Sydney's drawings, but the thought of it cracks me up. He clearly can't leave now, because who's gonna draw some decent illustrations of her dishes for her?? His workwife Sydney does need him, despite what she said.))