Is She Stunned? And How Does She Feel?

"I was like, oh my God, Pete, how are we gonna do this?" she says. "We have to create the emotional experience of how bad ... sadness is for Riley." The show's first act gets you so deeply into Joy's point of view that something is 'bad' For example, in a scene where Goofball Island falls, there was a problem with her response; people didn't like it. But when I saw it in early cuts, I was like, well, look, we're not having an emotional reaction from Joy".