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Birthday
• 1990-03-29
Gender
• Male
Location
• Kansas
Member Since
• 2003-07-31
Occupation
• Student
Real Name
• John Cook

Personal

Anime Fan Since
• Oh, I don't know. DBZ, sixth grade?
Favorite Anime
• Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, World Record (Animatrix)
Goals
• Finish an Illustrator project of mine, learn guitar
Hobbies
• Illustratoring, browsing the internet, listening to music, being generic.

myOtaku.com: John

Sunday, June 12, 2005

An Ode to Wilson
I've been meaning to do this ever since I got this layout up, but I haven't had time. But that's not anything new, of course. Man, I can't wait to finally get to a point where I have a stable computer situation. But anyway...

Wilson's the man, and I can only hope that anyone who's ever seen Home Improvement can vouch for that. Without question, he is the greatest "wise man"/"sage" character ever to appear in any movie or TV show.

The thing that really sets him apart from other wise men, though, is that although he always has an answer to every problem or question, he is still a real person. Unlike other legendary characters like Yoda, Wilson lead an ordinary life, where his storage of wisdom was only a part of his life. He didn't spend his whole existence trying to find some kind of ultimate wisdom or devote himself to protecting a galaxy, he simply lived his life and lived it spherically, spreading out in as many ways possible and always exploring new things. He didn't speak in metaphors or cliches, he talked like the normal human being that he was, not some grammatically challenged space midget. (Really, it's a wonder Yoda ever passed grade school.)

But the real genius behind Wilson's character was the concealment of his face, a barrier that intentionally kept the viewer from knowing everything about him and thus preserving his air of mystique through the entire series. Because average neighbor though he was, you simply can't have a sage in a series without anything about him to wonder about. This strong difference in their characters is what justifies their seemingly infinite wisdom.

I'm not sure how all that turned out because I'm not going to go back over it and check, so I'll just let it rest as my small tribute to a great man.
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