Wilt

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Originally Posted by WiltsAKGirl17

I remember you mentioning that the Afro had gone out of style by the late 70?s. I don?t know much about the Disco era, except for the jokes my parents crack about it! When I heard ?76, though, I instantly thought of the Bicentennial. I never noticed the Star Wars poster in GWH, but I wasn?t paying attention to the background?I was too caught up in plot and characters! I see this the way you do?if Craig says it?s 1976, it?s 1976.

Aside from the fact that there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on TV at the time, Wilt was definitely one of the major reasons I started watching Foster?s. He was a very warm, friendly character, which, for reasons beyond my comprehension, caught my attention; however, I never really pondered too deeply into his arm and eye. Like I mentioned earlier, I just accepted it, although they did fascinate in some way. I had always attributed Wilt?s evasive of Bloo?s basketball comment in the pilot to Wilt not wanting to sound like he was bragging, not that he didn?t want to discuss a less-pleasant time period of his life. If I didn?t know anything about GWH, but had to guess where Wilt?s scars came from and why he has only one arm and eye, I?d definitely agree that they were the result of pure selflessness?I doubt that selfishness is in Wilt?s system, except for in ?Room with a Feud.?



Even with what little medical knowledge I have, I never really doubted that Wilt?s scars were from a medical procedure. I figured that his arm would have been amputated?after the trauma he went through, I?d be quite surprised otherwise. I can imagine that giving Wilt a prosthetic limb would be a bit of a challenge?the first thing that comes to my mind is proportions, with cost/method of payment coming in at a close second.

No kidding! Given how long Wilt's arms are, can you imagine the logistics, especially back then, of designing and building a functional prosthetic arm? And like you said, the cost would have been staggering, definitely NOT within the budget of a homeless individual. Now, though, with the amazing breakthroughs in technology in designing prosthetic bionic limbs that can even "feel" and move like the real thing, the possibility of Wilt eventually having a new arm-IF he wants one-is a whole lot better. I'm sure that no matter what the cost, Jordan would be more than willing and able to cover it, so that matter is taken care of now, too. Still, Wilt has adapted so well to no longer having that arm, that it would probably be just as big an adjustment, and probably as physically painful, for him to learn to use a prosthesis as it was for him to learn to cope with no longer having a left arm in the first place.

A lot of folks, though, have assumed that Wilt's badly fractured arm just "fell off" all by itself, and we actually had someone claim that it just disappeared "by magic" right after it got broken-just "POOF", and it was all gone, the scars already in place, and Wilt never felt a thing, lol! That theory was largely based, I think, on the supposition that Wilt's body, and indeed that of all the IF's, weren't really flesh-and-bone, but that they were more like the "Toons" of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I don't think that it's ever been the intentions of the show's creators and makers for us to think that all of the characters are anything BUT living, biological beings that can be hurt or killed by ordinary means. Just that mention on the first DVD of Wilt breaking his toe and having to have his foot x-rayed and put in a cast for six weeks is proof that he DOES indeed have bones that can be broken. Like you said, anyone with even a little medical knowledge would recognize that Wilt's scars were made by surgical procedures, not random injuries or "magic".

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