Because she can’t believe Fate has brought Woody back to her. The part that gets me in the heart is after the embrace when Bo looks at him with disbelieving joy. The scene that gets me straight in the heart is when they run to each other and spin around in embrace. So, as in the flashback, she bids him goodbye and sends him on his way. However sad this might make her, she knows he takes his purpose as a toy seriously and she admires this. Bo knows Woody has to go back to his kid. She admires this quality in him and ultimately comes back to help.Īnd now we get to the part where I am reading into it from my own perspective. Being stubbornly loyal to your kid is a virtue. And when he wouldn’t give up after their failed attempt, she is understandably frustrated and leaves. Although she would rather not go back there, she cares about Woody enough that he helps him out anyway. And he needs her help getting Forky back from the antique store. Bo is excited at first at the prospect of Woody being a “lost toy”, but then she realizes that he’s only on a rescue mission. She introduces him to her friend Giggle McDimples, and it seems like Woody has come up before during their girl talk. When we finally meet Bo, we realize she hasn’t forgotten either. And in TS4, while Woody is still being his loyal-to-a-fault self, this time for Bonnie, and trying to get Forky back, the fact that he is distracted from his mission when he sees Bo’s lamp, again tells us that he hasn’t let go. The only mention of her in TS3 (which took place in this interim) was a throw-away line about having lost friends along the way, but the sadness Woody feels was made pronounced. But it remains clear that Woody hasn’t forgotten Bo. It’s at least 9 years between that flashback scene and the main events of TS4. She’s just grateful for the time they had together and wishes Woody the best with Andy. So it’s not as if she would get to be with Woody her whole life. And it’s not as if she expected to stay with Molly her whole life. Although, to a toy, that doesn’t seem like a fault – that seems like the best quality you can possibly have. And then the fact that Woody actually considers – even for a split second – to go with Bo, shows how important she is to him. He tries to get her back from the box, but she gently explains that if they find her in the house again, they will just take her away again. We saw how he wouldn’t accept the fact that Bo was being given away. And while Bo has been the active participant in the flirtatious relationship thus far, here we finally see how Woody feels. They did have something of an effective partnership as we saw on display during the rescue operation. It’s not until the flashback at the beginning of TS4 that we see that there may have been something deeper between the two. She would sometimes hook him in her staff and pull him over for a makeout session and that seemed to be the extent of their relationship. She was a little bit like Woody’s girlfriend, but I feel like their relationship was more just a flirtatious one rather than one of partnership. Moving on, finally, to Woody and Bo Peep.īo Peep wasn’t much of an important character in the first two movies. Too much of a stretch? They’re probably interested in sex? They’re probably boning each other off-screen? They have the bits? No? Okay cool, the toys are aces. Now, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the toys are asexual. And that’s why I think Toy Story 4 is romantic. Probably because of my asexuality, I’ve been drawn to the pairings that are high in the love, but low in the sexual tension. Or as my cousin puts it, “You mean you never get horny? Nice!” But basically asexuals (or aces) aren’t interested in sex or motivated by sex. If you don’t know what that is, I would really encourage you to visit the AVEN website and read up on what it is. here is your Spoiler Warning.īefore, I go into Woody and Bo Peep’s romance, let me address (1) the title of this piece and (2) what about their romance appeals to me. If you haven’t watched Toy Story 4, I haven’t spoiled anything yet (this could all have been surmised from the trailers) but in the rest of this piece I am going to, i.e. It’s not very pronounced and they kept it low-key for the most part. If you’ve watched Toy Story 4, you will know that there is a little bit of a romantic plot line thrown in between Woody and Bo Peep. But it is romantic in a very particular way that – as far as I know – appeals only to me. And you’d be right: TS4 isn’t particularly romantic in any traditional sense of the word. I think Toy Story 4 is one of the most romantic movies I have ever seen.
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