Wilt

[Cassini90125]

Honestly? I think that's an exaggeration at best. I'll doubtless be accused of Wilt-bashing or jealousy or something for saying that but that doesn't make it any less true. Every girl? Give me a break.

[pitbulllady]

MOST women would very much like to have a guy like Wilt, in terms of personality, and I can speak from the perspective of someone who's WAY past the "girl" stage and who has had time to experience relationships, and to observe the situations that my friends have been through. Yeah, you will find some females who are abberations, who'll actually tell you that they WANT some guy who is total master and controller, who treats them like dirt, or at best, just ignores them and stays out of the way, but those women are few and far between. If you took a poll(and it's been done, many times), of the personality traits that women want in a man, most of those traits would match up with Wilt's, very nicely. Most women can deal much better with a guy who apologizes for nearly every little thing than one who'll slam a door in your face, then look at you like it's YOUR fault for being on the other side of the door in the first place, and not find anything wrong with anything he does, and believe me, there are a LOT of those guys out there. Most of Wilt's personality traits and his abilities, like being able to fix things around the house, tally up quite nicely with what women in general want in a guy.

pitbulllady

[ptps]

...it was a joke. You didn't have to take my comment quite that seriously >_>; But yeah back to Wilt, haha. He's a nice guy.

[Ub3rD4n]

Well, regarding some previous commentary, I think it's selling Wilt short to believe he's oblivious to the bad stuff in life. I've called Wilt "pure" before, but even I don't beleive that. He understands all the bad stuff that's happening and chooses to keep smiling. THAT'S what I respect about him. He hasn't had an easy ride, yet he's still the kindest and cheerfullest friend in Fosters.

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by Ub3rD4n

Well, regarding some previous commentary, I think it's selling Wilt short to believe he's oblivious to the bad stuff in life. I've called Wilt "pure" before, but even I don't beleive that. He understands all the bad stuff that's happening and chooses to keep smiling. THAT'S what I respect about him. He hasn't had an easy ride, yet he's still the kindest and cheerfullest friend in Fosters.

That's basically what I said, so I agree wholeheartedly. Wilt knows what's going on around him, and when someone else is unhappy, but he also knows how insignificant a lot of the things people worry about and get mad over really are, relatively speaking. Wilt probably came very close to dying following that game against Larry, since there's no telling how long he went around with that busted arm before getting any medical treatment. The fact that the arm had to be amputated indicates that it had most likely become septic by the time he did get any medical help, and that's a condition that even now, with medical advances far better than in the 1970's, is often fatal. Having been through so much pain, and having stared down death itself, can put everything else in some real perspective. Most of the people I've met in my life who were most like Wilt, personality-wise and skills-wise, were part of "The Greatest Generation", those who'd grown up in the Depression, who fought in World War II, many having been injured and having lost loved ones to the horrors of war, so they learned the real value of life and happiness and of being able to overcome hardships. Many of those people had that same positive outlook that Wilt has, and I can remember a time when I was too young to understand that, and actually felt contempt for them, believing that they lived in some little fantasy world that was exempt from bad things or difficulties. It took going through some real rough spots myself for me to understand where they were really coming from, but I still find myself failing to measure up to those people. Most of those people are long gone now, which is why Wilt really stands out, I guess, for his personality, and why a lot of people tend to think that he's clueless and looks at the world through those proverbial rose-colored glasses, but that isn't the case at all.

pitbulllady

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by A mysterious girl

Have you ever read the book titled "The citadel"? Something there reminds me of what happened to Wilt. A man got stucked by the arm in a mine and a doctor had to cut his arm with nothing but a knife, I don't mean that's what really happened to Wilt, what I mean is that it could be possible to remove someone's limb without using many tools. (Nevermind what happend on that book, I still believe that what the doctor did was too dangerous and that maybe, that's not possible at all).

Before a means of safely anesthetizing patients was discovered, it WAS commonplace for doctors to amputate limbs with the patient fully concious. Of course, many such patients died of shock afterward, but many survived, also. The Grand Canyon here in the US was first explored and mapped by a Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell, whose right arm had been amputated following devastating injuries to it in battle. A couple of years ago, a hiker in one of our Western wilderness areas was pinned by the arm underneath a boulder in a rock slide, and he was alone at the time. He had to amputate his own arm with a camping knife to get free, otherwise he would have died there. He was a well-trained individual, though, who did have some medical background and had the equipment to create a tournequet to stem bleeding long enough for him to hike out to help. Regardless of whether Wilt's arm was amputated under "battleground" conditions, or in the relative safety of a contemporary operating room, it still would have been a rough thing to go through, all the worse if it was done by someone who DIDN'T use anesthetic. The fact that it was neatly sutured, and padded with muscle from elsewhere(most likely from those two scarred lobes on his face), indicates that it was done by a surgeon with experience in amputations, and most likely(this was the '70's, after all, and not in some remote wildnerness area, though some people DO think of the Southeastern US as a "wilderness")was done in the comparitive safety of a hospital OR, under general anesthesia.

pitbulllady

[Ridureyu]

Originally Posted by Ub3rD4n

Well, regarding some previous commentary, I think it's selling Wilt short to believe he's oblivious to the bad stuff in life. I've called Wilt "pure" before, but even I don't beleive that. He understands all the bad stuff that's happening and chooses to keep smiling. THAT'S what I respect about him. He hasn't had an easy ride, yet he's still the kindest and cheerfullest friend in Fosters.

That's "pure" in a genuine sense. He's not ignorant and innocent, but rather he's faced harsh realities of life and refuses to let them corrupt him.

[ptps]

Just wanted to ask for a general opinion of the public:

I've noticed Wilt going what I think is "off-model" for the episodes "Sight for Sore Eyes" and "Eddie Monster", where he develops a "visible" eyebrow. I've only got a cap from Sore Eyes here:

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/24-0008.jpg

And I would take a cap from Eddie Monster as well, but I'm lazy.

Basically, I'm bringing this up because in most of the episodes I've watched, when Wilt gets angry (which is rare), his eye normally retains its round shape, with the lid depicting his level of anger:

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/28-0012.jpg

And I know this is a minor issue, but yeah, does the first "eyebrow" picture sit well with you guys when you see it? It could possibly mean that Wilt is really, really mad when his "eyebrow" thing comes out, but it kind of throws me off a bit every time I see it, haha.

It could also possibly be just a mistake on part of the storyboard artist not following the model packs (sometimes the character packs have specific rules on what a character should or should not look like in certain expressions and stuff) and it getting through to finalization without being noticed. Considering there's been tons of continuity errors in Foster's (Neighbour Pains: Mac's backpack appears after it's clearly been left inside the house then redisappears later, Goo's hair braids continually switching sides, Coco's "body" showing through her beak, Badvertisement: Man's hand in background covering Bloo who is in the foreground, etc. ) I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case.

Still, it adds a different level of expression for Wilt, no? Even though it makes him really mean-looking and stuff. :S

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by ptps

Just wanted to ask for a general opinion of the public:

I've noticed Wilt going what I think is "off-model" for the episodes "Sight for Sore Eyes" and "Eddie Monster", where he develops a "visible" eyebrow. I've only got a cap from Sore Eyes here:

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/24-0008.jpg

And I would take a cap from Eddie Monster as well, but I'm lazy.

Basically, I'm bringing this up because in most of the episodes I've watched, when Wilt gets angry (which is rare), his eye normally retains its round shape, with the lid depicting his level of anger:

http://www.fosters-home.com/screengrabs/2/28-0012.jpg

And I know this is a minor issue, but yeah, does the first "eyebrow" picture sit well with you guys when you see it? It could possibly mean that Wilt is really, really mad when his "eyebrow" thing comes out, but it kind of throws me off a bit every time I see it, haha.

It could also possibly be just a mistake on part of the storyboard artist not following the model packs (sometimes the character packs have specific rules on what a character should or should not look like in certain expressions and stuff) and it getting through to finalization without being noticed. Considering there's been tons of continuity errors in Foster's (Neighbour Pains: Mac's backpack appears after it's clearly been left inside the house then redisappears later, Goo's hair braids continually switching sides, Coco's "body" showing through her beak, Badvertisement: Man's hand in background covering Bloo who is in the foreground, etc. ) I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case.

Still, it adds a different level of expression for Wilt, no? Even though it makes him really mean-looking and stuff. :S

I think that the animators did that just to give an enhanced impression of Wilt being really angry, and he CAN get really ticked-off. His patience with Bloo can be quite minimal at times. There are going to be periodic animation "screw-ups", though, like in Good Wilt Hunting when we see a pic of Wilt shooting baskets at Foster's, and his facial scars are missing, and we later see a "flashback" pic of him right after his arm was broken, and his has the facial scars, even though there was nothing that happened on the basketball court to cause them!

pitbulllady

[wiltfangirl93]

Whenever I see Wilt get the eyebrow, I get all creeped out. It also means that you shouldn't get on his bad side, or tell him any "tall" jokes