Talk:Mr. Top Hat/@comment-31077845-20170227131841

I'm gonna add to Cheshire and say ok then, if Mr. Top Hat lived at the school and came out of an air vent, why would the kid not be particularly afraid of going to school, and furthermore why wouldn't he tell anyone about it? The thing in the house with the chair almost suggests this top hat fellow could get into their house somehow which I guess would explain what was going on with him being afraid even at home, but if this is a tall guy wearing a top hat how is he pulling that off? And I guess I could forgive Mr. Top Hat if he wasn't up on his dietrological knowledge living in an abandoned maintenance room and all, but if he wanted this kid "fat and healthy" why would he have him eating 2, and only 2, specifically peanut butter sandwiches a day? That would just make him "die" or at least stunt his growth, and hell, probably would barely meet his caloric needs. He'd just tell him "Eat as much as you can as often as you can".

See, I'm gonna tell ya what I think really happened here; the author started out thinking they were going to go with the "Mr. Top Hat is a paranormal entity" angle, thus the oddly specific requirements and capability to be wherever and the child's constat fear regardless of location, then decided it would be creepier if he were actually a real dude and thus changed direction right near the end, but with the rest of the story heavily based on the original concept they would've basically had to scrap/rework the entire thing to use that ending. Not being able to finish with the original concept or make the rest work right with the final concept, they kinda just awkwardly pasted the two concepts together and called it a day.