steve was way more likeable this season
like his friendship with dustin
shareYeah, I didn't expect Dustin and Steve to have such a good dynamic.
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They said the two actors goofing around on set together during season 1 filming is what prompted them to add this change to season 2. I think it worked out well. Steve became everyone's protector and big brother, much to his own surprise.
shareAwww! I hadn't read that! That makes it every better!
Oh yeah, Steve was a jerk in Season 1. Maybe he matured a little bit. He's going to be graduating soon and getting a full-time job. Less of a kid now..
Like I know in high-school in the early years if you were popular you hung around an exclusive group. But as you get older it really gets less exclusive. You start hanging with anyone, people with different interests or whatever. "Geeky" kids hang with the poppular kids. Everyone just gets more mature and new friendships are made.
Steve was awesome this season.
He was the only one in that triangle I ended up caring about in the end.
shareYeah, he was. I hated him most of last season but now he's one of the best on the show. So, good time for Nancy to cheat on him right?
Seriously, I thought Nancy was alright last season but now she is my least favourite on the show and Jonathan has also gone down a few notches. I hope that the cheating on Steve is addressed in the next season.
They already did. Steve told Nancy it was okay, recognizing I think that they were always a mismatched couple. That doesn't mean he was genuinely totally okay with it but he wasn't holding a grudge either.
shareThat was expected.
Rewatching season 1, I get the sense he was never really that big of an a-hole. He acted like a snob and jerk for sure, but he wasn’t as childish and mean-spirited as his friends. He was almost like a Ferris Bueller type with a rougher edge who started to mature. And, he genuinely cared about Nancy.
When he completely redeemed himself at the end of season 1, I knew he wasn’t going to go back to acting like his old self. By befriending Dustin, standing up to a prick like Billy, going as far as becoming a comic relief with his babysitting duties, and above all showing his concern for Nancy throughout the show, Steve showed a completely different side to him in season 2. If he wasn’t already in the first season, then he easily became one of the best characters in the series with this last season.
He didn't change overnight because of Nancy. You got the impression that he was just growing up, his friends were a bit behind the curve, and their immature BS didn't seem cool to Steve anymore. I was surprised when he went charging back in to fight the demogorgon with his signature monster basher but it's not that big a shock he and Nancy didn't last. Jonathan is a lot more like her than Steve. He seems to realize that and resign himself to the inevitable (as much as it hurts). They need to find someone else for poor Steve next season! What do you think ... if Eight shows up, maybe something there?
shareWhat do you think ... if Eight shows up, maybe something there?
I say possibly, you never know. It would be an interesting pairing. share
He was great, and I enjoyed his dynamic with Dusting too. And all the other kids. But he's a terrible babysitter.
shareGive him some credit, none of the kids died, or actually came to any harm. He was the one who got a beating.
Steve was a fucking Dude.
True, true. And to be fair, the kids kinda kidnapped him in the end there, so he's off the hook I guess.
shareSeriously - they forced me to? True or not, what do you think that excuse would've gotten him if something went wrong?
Cut Steve some slack though. How often does babysitting include an invasion of alien monsters from another dimension? He did a pretty good job keeping the kids safe. He even stepped between them and danger several times. Can't ask for more than that.
That excuse wouldn't have gotten him far, I don't think lol.
I said it more in jest. There's nothing he could've done under the circumstances and he did protect the kids. Steve's a stand up guy, with a cool bat.