Wilt

[FailedShapeshifter]

I loved the army verteran thing And for some reason....the pipe cracked me up

[pitbulllady]

I liked the whole concept of Wilt as a WWII veteran myself. I've often compared his nature, his willingness to put others before himself and his own safety, to the general attitudes of "The Greatest Generation". Back in those days, it was commonplace to find people like Wilt, and the freedom of the whole world was saved because of that. Now, most people look after themselves first and figure that the rest of the world will take care of itself. As that generation dies out, folks like Wilt will seem more and more odd and out-of-place, sadly.

What was interesting, though(and I'll put this in spoiler tags for anyone who has not seen the episode yet) Spoiler Below

was that the nursing home readily accepted Bloo, Wilt, Ed, and Coco, even though it would have to have been OBVIOUS that they were Imaginary Friends, old or not. That does sorta go against a lot of what is said on a certain OTHER forum, about how Imaginary Friends, and Wilt in particular, aren't human and should not be treated as such. The nursing home did not discriminate against them for not LOOKING human, and apparently, the operators did not consider it that odd that Imaginary Friends COULD age, either. That does sorta bolster my little hypothesis(which can now be called a theory, I guess, since it now has some backing from the plot of the series)that even though Imaginary Friends probably live longer and age much more slowly than humans, at least while they can still be around children, perhaps-they DO age, and will eventually die.

pitbulllady

[FailedShapeshifter]

Yay spoiler tags!
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I just pegged the nursing home workers as gulible. It kinda makes you wonder if the friends really do age. I really like the idea that they age slowly, but still....now that I think about it, Wilt does look a bit younger in the Flashbacks in GWH.

[Ub3rD4n]

I agree with Failed Shapeshifter, those guys may have just been ignorant. I mean, considering that there is not currently, nor has there ever been (according to Adam, who I trust to know what he's talking about when he's being knowitallish) any scientific study on IFs, barring Douglas and Adam. So it could be very easy in a climate where people simply don't care enough about IFs to know much about them, for someone to get something as basic as that mixed up.

[Vampyre]

I don't know I mean... This is TWICE that Bloo has appeared as elderly in this season... (I have no idea if Say It Isn't Sew has aired on television yet so I'm shoving this in spolier tags)

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When Bloo is dreaming about being stuck in the fabric straw for the rest of his life, he appears as an elderly friend, hobbiling a long with a walking stick or something, and I doubt that if Bloo wasn't going to grow old someday, that he would imagine himself as old... I dunno, I'm not to good a figuring out how people (or IFs in this case) work, just working out what causes certain people's nightmares....

[Cassini90125]

Uh, people, I think this discussion might be better held in the Something Old, Something Bloo thread? We're getting reather off-topic here.

[antgirl1]

Maybe imaginaries have longer life-spans than humans (Uncle Pockets) and will, at a range of certain ages, age, like people say. It's almost like I can see SOMETHING in Wilt's past that made him look YOUNGER, but I have no clue what it is, and it's NOT the fact that he's "broken" that made him look "older". The answer is there, but I don't know what it is.

[Vampyre]

Yeah I can see that too. He DOES look a LOT younger in the flashbacks and the only thing that's different is just the absence of his arm and the wonky-ness of his eye...

[x_dummkoff_x]

maybe it's cuz he seems so happy and....
not troubled in the flashbacks.