joewright:“All of season one, [Steve] was a really bad dude. 80s’ jock in the pilot script. And then

joewright:“All of season one, [Steve] was a really bad dude. 80s’ jock in the pilot script. And then, once we found Joe, he started to evolve a bit and became more charming and likeable, to the point where when we we doing– writing season one, we just realized that we wanted to give him more of an arc, we didn’t want him to end on this negative note of Nancy “the Slut” Wheeler. So that was a last minute change that he went back in that house and helped save the day.” - The Duffer BrothersThat was one of the most subversive things in the first season, and I loved that. Look, there’s plenty stories where girl dates this jock duche, but then opens up to a relationship with the good guy, and dumps the duche. Steve starts out as a duche, gets worse, then stops to think about himself for a second and realizes that he’s becoming a person he doesn’t want to be, and tries to fix things one at the time. Unfortunately, that leads him stright into something way too big for him. Or is it? In this moment here he displays bravery and loyalty, and that made him fleshed character, and the love triangle that much more complex. It was no longer choice between the duche and the good guy. It was a choice between two decent guys. And all it took was to see Steve as a person, not a plot device or cliche to fill - which would taint the otherwise great work of Stranger Things. -- source link

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