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Originally Posted by wiltfangirl93
I've never watched the show in different languages, but I do know that Wilt's english voice is the bestest of the best! Is that ok?  |
No arguement from me on THAT! I first started watching the show to find out more about this tall red being with the missing arm and messed-up eye, after seeing fan art of him on Deviant Art, but that voice was a big part of the reason I got totally hooked in the first place. It just perfectly suits him. It's obviously ethnic without being "street" or "ghetto" or other stereotypes; it's smooth and pitched just right, easily fitting someone of Wilt's height, age and gender.
Changing the subject a bit though, it kinda bothers me that so many people still perceive Wilt as clueless, blissfully going through life always-happy, oblivious to the fact that others might not share in his happiness. As we saw in the last season, culminating with
GWH, that's not the case at all. Wilt has some really deep-seated issues, and he's clearly aware of how others see him and of others' feelings, including the negative ones. I do think that given all the awful things that have happened to him, that he's been able to overcome, little things like Jackie's tiff over being paired up with Wilt for the county fair are put in perspective as not being worth raising a fuss over. Most of us, now, if confronted with someone who obviously had a problem with us, would say something about it, like "what's YOUR problem, dude?", and that would only serve to make the situation worse. Wilt knows that it's not worth it. It's not that he doesn't realize when someone else dislikes him(he obviously knew that Larry didn't), or is unhappy with him, but he's just learned to brush it off as being relatively insignificant on the larger scale of things. It's comparable to the pilot episode when he first meets Mac and Bloo, and tells them, "I know I'm all broken, with the stubby arm and the wonky eye-probably freaks you out, huh?", and when you think about his situation, that's pretty sad. There's no telling how many people have reacted very negatively to him over the years, children especially, because of his injuries, and he's just come to that point where he can either stew over it and spend the rest of his life feeling useless, or he can build up that emotional wall to things like that, and almost treat them as a joke.
GWH was evidence of that "wall", that he's constructed to keep out life's more painful experiences and memories, and no one who is that complex, who can keep such secrets buried for 30 years, can be a simpleton.
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