Hey, brother that enzyme has been crushing it on the award show circuit so today
I wanted to revisit inside out and who might be becoming my favorite pixar character of all time
Riley Anderson Riley is unique in that so many different kinds of people feel they can project
themselves onto
Her which leads to a lot of questions some of which we've already tried to answer on the channel like why does she have male
And female emotions or who is her monster and today. We're going to answer one more is Riley
adopted
Right off the bat you're probably thinking uh jay the first scene is riley being born how could she be adopted
Yes, we do see Riley right after she's born but it's possible
We don't actually see the woman who gave birth to her allow me to refresh your memory the first scene is actually
Riley opening her eyes and her parents talking to her for the first time take a good look at her parents
first they appear to be standing something women who just gave birth don't really do right afterwards and
Also does her mom look like she just gave birth like disheveled and sweaty and exhausted
No, and look what she's wearing
it looks like just regular clothes not a
hospital gown like you might expect also think that we the audience are supposed to believe this is the first interaction between the parents and
Riley and unlike how you might expect a newborn baby to be like slimy and screaming?
She's all clean and swallowed up and asleep all of this points the idea that
Someone else actually gave birth to Riley and after she was cleaned up
She was then handed
To her new parents now that might sound like shaky ground to build an adoption case on but don't worry there is more
stable evidence like for example
How did two brown haired Brown-eyed people give birth to a blond-haired blue-eyed daughter genetically?
It's not impossible, but it is difficult
the science can get a little bit tricky
But just to keep things simple let's use those fun punnett squares you learned about in seventh grade science class
Let's look at her eyes when you're born each parent passes you a pair of
Alleles shown here by letters uppercase are dominant and lowercase are recessive if we cross those letters in a punnett square
We could predict what features you will have when you're born brown eyes are dominant and blue eyes are recessive and the dominant Gene is
Present at all it will always mask a recessive gene
so for Riley to have blue eyes [both] her parents would need to be carrying dominant brown alleles to explain their own hair color and
Recessive blue allele to pass on to Riley and that would still just give her
25% chance of being a blue-eyed person
But here's where it gets [tricky] [because] all the same stuff is true for blonde hair versus brown hair
So Riley has to win this aryan lottery twice giving her just a one in sixteen or six point two five percent
Chance of having blonde hair and blue eyes now obviously that's not impossible, but it does seem less likely
And I think it does help our case as does this does it seem odd
That Riley is an only [child]
[I] mean for such family oriented parents you'd think there'd be more well
family now obviously there's nothing wrong with
Choosing to have just one child and there's [definitely] no evidence that having only one child means your parents
Don't care as [much]
But they do seem to be really good parents and their daughter has a pretty serious
Imaginary friend suggesting that you know, maybe she would want or need
Somebody to play with [I] would I think it's a money issue either
I mean the family is able to move on a whim from Minnesota to San Francisco and afford housing in the city
Which is not cheap - why no sibling club tell you why because have you seen the adoption process in this country oh?
I wouldn't want to go through it twice either. So here's a question if she is adopted
Do you think she knows I actually think she does I did some research
and it looks like the suggested age for parents to tell their [kids] their adopted is between
Seven and eight and by the end of the movie Riley is 12, so I would guess she is aware of it
I say this because it explains a weird thing you might not have noticed on
Family Island take a look around this island
Everything about it has to do with Riley and her parents
There's three pieces on the game board three people playing on the swings riding a tandem bicycle jumping on the trampoline
Mentioned the giant statues the only thing a little skew here is the family tree despite the overwhelming
Presence of Riley's parents on this island it is Riley herself who sits alone?
atop the family Tree above what I can only assume is the family she hopes to have some day if she's
Adopted this family tree actually makes more sense because of course she considers her parents real parents because they are
Real parents, that's why they're all over the island
but
Biologically they wouldn't make it to the top of the family tree because they didn't actually give birth to her as far as she knows
Riley would be the biological starting point of her own family
plus let's not forget who directed this film Pete docter the man who also directed up and
monsters inc of as in Coral and Ellie the most adorable
sterile couple of all time and monsters Inc as in unlikely father figures
this is a man who likes to play around with the idea of what a parent is and
Inside out is no exception
It's all there from her first memory to her [blond] hair and blue [eyes] to her sibling less existence and the family tree
We see on Family Eyelid [all] the signs are pointing to riley being adopted [which] brings us to the final question
if she's adopted
Why don't they bring it up because it doesn't matter those are her parents that is her family and the story they are trying to
tell is one of a little girl having to grow up and dealing with moving to a new place not an
Adopted girl running away from her parents bringing it up would just cast the whole movie in a new light
And I believe that we the audience would
Define riley by her adopted, NasAi
and that is not fair [to] Riley it is not fair to
Define someone by just a part of someone then that's all I've [got] for you my question for you
And everybody else is do you think Riley's adopted and does it?
Better let me know down with the towel section below, and I will see you in another life brother. These socks are amazing guys
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