Wilt's Stitches

[InsaneFan]

Well, it looks like this thread isn't explained away by GWH. It's still open for discussion.

I don't have much to say on this topic, I'll let ya'll do that for me. Taking into consideration that he was on his own for 8 years before coming to Foster's, any number of things could've happened.

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by InsaneFan

Well, it looks like this thread isn't explained away by GWH. It's still open for discussion.

I don't have much to say on this topic, I'll let ya'll do that for me. Taking into consideration that he was on his own for 8 years before coming to Foster's, any number of things could've happened.

Yeah, that's still open for discussion, but even though I didn't notice it(I'm gonna watch it again soon, though), someone else said that he had the stitches on his face as he was leaving the city in which he'd been created, after he was hurt, even though he had no visable injuries on his face(other than the eye)or any reason to, since Larry was big and heavy but not sharp and pointy! There really would be no logical explanation for the stitches already being there, with no one to put them there(suturing requires TWO hands), and no reason for them to be there at that point. I would have assumed that at the time his arm was amputated, the surgeon had to take muscle from his cheeks to graft over the bone stump for padding, which is a typical procedure. Usually, the surgical team tries to get muscle from the limb that's being amputated, but due to the thinness of Wilt's arms, and the fact that massive infection had probably set in by the time Wilt got medical help, finding enough viable muscle in that arm without cutting into what remained of the still-healthy portion would have been impossible. Therefore, it would have been necessary to harvest muscle from the sides of his face, so as not to affect the use of his other limbs.

pitbulllady

[LaBlooGirl]

Originally Posted by pitbulllady

Yeah, that's still open for discussion, but even though I didn't notice it(I'm gonna watch it again soon, though), someone else said that he had the stitches on his face as he was leaving the city in which he'd been created, after he was hurt, even though he had no visable injuries on his face(other than the eye)or any reason to, since Larry was big and heavy but not sharp and pointy! There really would be no logical explanation for the stitches already being there, with no one to put them there(suturing requires TWO hands), and no reason for them to be there at that point. I would have assumed that at the time his arm was amputated, the surgeon had to take muscle from his cheeks to graft over the bone stump for padding, which is a typical procedure. Usually, the surgical team tries to get muscle from the limb that's being amputated, but due to the thinness of Wilt's arms, and the fact that massive infection had probably set in by the time Wilt got medical help, finding enough viable muscle in that arm without cutting into what remained of the still-healthy portion would have been impossible. Therefore, it would have been necessary to harvest muscle from the sides of his face, so as not to affect the use of his other limbs.

pitbulllady

Man are YOU insightful! I never even thought of that one! (And I sit here and over-analyze everything to death! lol)

[antgirl1]

The whole "seeing Wilt's stitches as he leaves the 'hood" thing was most likely an animation mistake, since you don't see it again as Wilt actually "leaves".

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by antgirl1

The whole "seeing Wilt's stitches as he leaves the 'hood" thing was most likely an animation mistake, since you don't see it again as Wilt actually "leaves".

That's what I'm thinking, too. The crew(and the computer program)is so used to Wilt having those stitches, it's almost automatic to put them there, and then later realize, too late, that he shouldn't have had them at that point. He does not have them as he's lying on the court, nor when we see him leave, just in that glimpse of the back of his head as he catches one last glimpse of Jordan.

pitbulllady

[InsaneFan]

Yeah, I'm certain that was a goof. Like the pantsless Ed having pants for a sec in the Big Cheese.

[ptps]

Stitches in his face: Unmirrored character design makes it look interesting.

Stitches in his face while leaving the city: Animation Continuity problem, or goof, or they reused the wrong Flash symbol/group while animating.

There's tons of animation/continuity errors in Foster's, the stitch one in GWH was probbaly just another of them.

I'm glad he has them either way. BATTLE WOUNDS, BROTHER. >D