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Originally Posted by jekylljuice
I wouldn’t mind a few more flashbacks to Wilt’s past with Jordan, but I personally found out most of what I really wanted to know in Good Wilt Hunting, and I’m happy to read in between the lines from therein, at least so far as the family relations would have gone. I agree with pitbulllady that Jordan’s older brother was probably quite resentful of Wilt, given that, as the IF himself stated, he was never particularly nice to Jordan about his lesser basketball skills. It figures that he would perceive Wilt’s addition to the equation as a threat to his status as the family’s top basketball player.
The chapter of Wilt’s life about which I remain most intrigued would be how he supported himself between leaving Jordan and coming to Foster’s. I would welcome a little more elaboration on that period, though at the same time I’d enjoy having some room left for speculation. As people have stated, the torch for IF with the most mysterious background has now been passed onto Coco, though I’m not holding my breath for too many further details as far as she‘s concerned. I would love it if they delved into her past just a tad more, if only to learn the identity of the kid who created her and what eventually became of them, but I imagine that the Foster’s crew might consider it to be truer to the nature of her character (obscure, largely incomprehensible and usually on a different mental plane to the others) if they didn’t.
Following the events of GWH, it’s possible that Wilt might exhibit a little more self-confidence in future episodes…my only concern there being that I don’t want his neurotic side to diminish too significantly. Part of what makes Wilt so relatable and appealing to me personally are his character flaws (naturally, the fact that he’s such a damn handsome gentleman doesn’t hurt his appeal rating  ), and Wilt just wouldn’t feel like Wilt without them. |
Yeah, that is certainly a very interesting and still-mysterious part of Wilt's life. If the photos in "The Big Picture" can be take with any degree of meaning, Wilt's been at Foster's for 22 years(with his arm already having been amputated when we first see him), but that ill-fated game during which his arm was crushed took place 30 years ago, leaving an eight-year period of time during which we know nothing of Wilt's life-how he survived, who amputated his mangled arm(and I'm totally not going with the "it just fell off and stitches appeared on it by magic" scenario)and sewed him up, how the scars on his face really came to be, whether he lived with anyone while recovering, and how he actually got to Foster's, which is on the opposite side of the continent from where Wilt is originally from.
I'd also like to see Wilt gain a bit more self-confidence and not have to deal with so much inner pain and guilt anymore, but at the same time, I agree that his sometimes-neurotic and unpredictable behavior is what makes him so believable and gives him so much depth of character, moreso than many live-action characters on tv. And yeah, it sure doesn't hurt that he's still one of the best-looking guys on tv, either!
pitbulllady