Talk:1999/@comment-28263160-20160602154125

1/10 It's so far beyond a strain on disbelief that no one ever simply sat the protaganist down at any time in the intervening 17 years and explained to the closest thing to a final potential victim of a child mass-murder, the story of what happened (which literally every single in-universe character seems to know), that it's impossible to read. He'd be a Harry Potter-esque "Boy Who Lived" local celebrity in real life- whether his father cared about keeping the story from him (which he wouldn't) or not.

And it would be terribly, mortally dangerous to a Kindergartner's life, to not tell him that nice old Mr. Bear, who he so idolized he wanted to be on his TV show, was actually a crazy deranged child mass murderer, and that the murderer was still on the loose.

Mr Bear, by the way, had Elliots home address the entire time he was a child (from the return address on the envelope Elliot sent his letter in to the show). So why the pretence of him getting interested in Elliot again? Poor little Elliot was the perfect ignorant victim (because his parents and the cops refused to tell him what everyone else knew) so if he ever wanted to do him in, why not back then?