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I have, most recently around 8:35 p.m. on a weeknight during the closing credits ofInside Out 2.
Youd better, because you are not prepared for how much ice hockey there is inInside Out 2.
Riley is now 13, in the thick of puberty and roiling with emotions.
In the text of the film, this is merely because shereally, reallywants to be just like Val.
Theyre locked away in a vault, where they meet other repressed elements of Rileys psyche.
By this point, a discerning viewer has put the pieces together: Rileys secret is that shes gay.
(Or shes bi, or pansexual, or just generally queer.
These companies never let an Easter egg go un-hatched.
There must be some resolution, and I was determined to see it out.
Surely the question would be answered in a mid-credits interstitial?
But by this point I simply had to know.
My persistence paid off.
Groundbreaking.But what we got instead is just baffling.
Now, there is nothing personally at stake for me in an animated characters sexuality one way or another.
But I hate feeling like a weirdo, and this made me feel a weirdo!
The only silver lining?
So maybe theres hope after all.
Might Pixar letInside Out 3take place entirely at a Chappell Roan concert?
