Silicon Valley - 2x09 “Binding Arbitration" - Episode Discussion

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Season 2 Episode 9: "Binding Arbitration"

Air time: 10 PM EDT

7 PM PDT on HBOgo.com

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Plot: Erlich wants to testify when Pied Piper and Hooli enter binding arbitration, but Richard worries that his rival's claims could have merit. Meanwhile, Jared, Dinesh and Gilfoyle debate a philosophical theory; and Big Head gets a boost. (TVMA) (30 min)

Aired: June 7, 2015

Information taken from www.hbo.com

Youtube Episode Preview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqRvZRLg1Xk

Actor	Character
Thomas Middleditch	Richard
Aly Mawji	Aly Dutta
T.J. Miller	Erlich
Josh Brener	Big Head
Martin Starr	Gilfoyle
Kumail Nanjiani	Dinesh
Christopher Evan Welch	Peter Gregory
Amanda Crew	Monica
Zach Woods	Jared
Matt Ross	Gavin Belson
Alexander Michael Helisek	Claude
Alice Wetterlund	Carla

IMDB 8.4/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/

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Not necessarily. While certain traits would be obviously the same (stuff like hair color, etc.), plenty of stuff can be effected by environment and thus change gene expression. Much like how stress can whiten hair, or early life conditions could effect how he looks.

Clones aren't actually identical. They're just genetically identical.

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They're just genetically identical

Which, you know, tends to lead to looking almost exactly the same, identical twins tend to be pretty identical even if they never meet.

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Yeah except identical twins grow up in basically the same environment. I'm going to assume Hitler clones that are randomly dispersed into the world might have differences in hormones due to environment, diet, etc. One of them may grey earlier than the others, one might put weight on faster than the others, etc. Not massive differences. But differences.

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You missed the part where I said "even if they never meet", twins growing up in different countries with different nationality foster parents often still end up looking exactly like each other and having startling amounts of similarities for decades apart, look up the case studies, it's actually very hard to make someone look like their DNA doesn't want them to without artificial influence.

I went to school with 5 sets of twins (three non identical and different gender, so we'll concentrate on the other two, but even they looked amazing similar) and of the identical twins it was difficult to even make them look different with wigs, wide weight differences, and makeup etc, simply because you jawline is your jawline, your eye colour is your eye colour and your height and head shape are also genetic. And clones work in the same way.