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Originally Posted by Zeitgheist
I think you both have excellent points
It's the cliché, but, yes, Bloo is closer to my personality. But most of that is because he's a gamer like me, and I take some enjoyment in that (like seeing him play that game during all of Emancification Complication). Bloo has never inspired me in any ways, it just NICE to see a character who's so insensitive and doesn't have a care in the world like him. That's why I love cartoons <3
Wilt is funny because his good nature is so often being joked around with, but it still gives me unpleasant shivers down my spine everytime he apologizes. I'm one of those who're too proud to apologize or simply can not feel guilt (my shrink says it's because I have asperger, but, I like to think that I'm broken  )
But neither of these characters are my favorite. That place belongs to Mac. Bloo has never annoyed me, and probably never will, it's just that he's too close to me that I get bored. Mac has the qualities that I want. Intelligent, calm, easily paranoid and manipulated by others (it's a good quality!)  |
Bloo is more like a very young child. Little kids believe that the universe revolves around THEM, and everyone in it exists to serve THEIR needs and wants. They do what they feel like doing, and often don't feel remorse when they do something wrong. Most child psychologists do not believe that children really develope the capacity to feel guilt, or to empathize with others, until they are five or six years old. Bloo DOES express guilt from time to time, but it's more like a nuisance that pops up every now and then, like a wart or something. In that respect, I don't see Bloo as "broken" at all, but as an example of pure ID. Wilt and Mac both are more similar to each other than either is to Bloo, with the difference being that Mac is still a kid and does, from time to time, "regress" back to more simpler and guilt-free childhood pleasures, like sabataging Duchess' tea party. Wilt, on the other hand, is the one who IS most definately "broken"-not so much physically, as he believes, but emotionally. Instead of blythly ignoring guilt, he's let it be his universe for the past 30 years, and it's nearly destroyed him. That was the whole point of having him undergo increasing "breakdowns" and erratic behavior in the past season, leading up to
Good Wilt Hunting-to show his increasingly damaged status as all that guilt began to force its way to the surface, like magma rising in the neck of a long-dormant volcano, threatening to eventually explode, taking the entire mountain with it. I am sometimes bothered a bit when the show's writers seem to overuse Wilt's trademark "Sorry", but I understand now why he does that; it's an expression of all the guilt and remorse and pain he's kept hidden inside for all those years. All that time, knowing who his creator was, and being ashamed to even tell anyone, not even those closest to him. I would sorta hope that they'd tone down the chronic, gratuitous use of the "sorry's" now that Wilt seems to have finally started resolving his issues, and show some other sides to him, like that mischievous, somewhat-twisted humorous side as seen in "Nightmare On Wilson Way", or that fanatic "sports dad" side seen in the end credits of the movie, or that take-charge side displayed in "Eddie Monster", what "The Dog Whisperer" Cesar Milan would refer to as "calm, assertive discipline", when Wilt most non-apologetically back-handed Bloo upside the head! Wilt proved in
GWH that he's very articulate and CAN speak in whole paragraphs without apologizing, and it's like from time to time we get those little glimpses of "the real Wilt", as he was before that ill-fated game 30 years ago, as opposed to the "broken" emotional shell he's become.
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