Wilt

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Originally Posted by WiltsAKGirl17

Wilt is anything BUT ?filler!? It?s hard to call a bright red IF with one arm, a blind eye and a huge blue 1 on his chest?not to mention as amazing a personality and backstory??filler.? Ah, but I go on! It?s almost like Wilt?s been languishing in a corner somewhere, but he?s waiting for the opportune season six moment to wow us.

Based on what I saw of season 5, Wilt was quite different from his earlier appearances. In ?Nightmare on Wilson Way,? I?d imagine that him scaring the little kids was just for their amusement, maybe a little of his own amusement as a happy byproduct. I haven?t seen ?Better Off Ed,? but it?s great to hear that he?s standing up to Bloo. There?s hope for him yet.

Not that there wasn?t any to begin with.



Well, he could have said that in the context of ?I?m sorry THAT this the worst idea you?ve ever had.? At least that?s how I interpret the statement; not knowing anything about the scene this line is from, I could be horribly wrong.

*I* did not mean that Wilt was "filler", or a background character who just shows up at random moments when you need to have someone, as you say, standing in a corner somewhere, but that is how he's been used this season. He really hasn't been important to any plot, other than "Nightmare On Wilson Way". In many episodes where he has been seen, he has no speaking lines, or only one, and in many others, he's been completely MIA.

His personality definitely reflected a change, though. I didn't get the impression that any of the trick-or-treaters in "Nightmare On Wilson Way" were amused by Wilt's little trick. The older kids were completely unimpressed, and the younger ones ran away screaming in terror, while Wilt stood there with that big manic grin on his face, lol! It was more for HIS amusement than anything else! He was also clearly disappointed when that fake arm trick failed to get a reaction from the first group of trick-or-treaters, and that in itself is a first-for Wilt to openly show disappointment in someone else. Previously, he would have more or less faked it and concealed how he really felt, lest his demeanor bring someone else down, since keeping others happy was his primary, if not ONLY goal. Now, it's like he's finally starting doing things for WILT, once in awhile, and is letting his feelings show at last, instead of bottling them in. It's like he's finally starting to acknowledge that HE counts, too, instead of always putting everyone else first and himself last. We got a glimpse of that in "Room With a Feud", which shocked a lot of people that Wilt would really go all-out to get something, rather than simply giving up what he wanted to someone else, because he thought of them as somehow more deserving that he was. I really enjoyed that episode because of that, and I've really been wanting to see more of that side of him.

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