re: Stranger Things: Season 1 ****SPOILERS**** Discussion Thread

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The thing about Steve is he just a teenager. Outside the "nancy is a slut" thing nothing he did was that unrealistic for a teen. The whole 80s douche is just the directors playing with that trope.

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I think that was actually his friend, the a-hole with the bitch girlfriend who totally douches out at the end. Steve doesn't deny it to Nancy, because like you said, he's an idiot teenager, but then he bitches out the other guy about it in the next scene we see with him. I really liked the moment when Steve sees himself in his "friend" and realizes how shitty he's been. That one moment, following his humiliating defeat in the fight with Beyers, was a huge maturing point for his character.

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Have friends over while your parents are gone- everyone does it

drink beer and try to get in girlfriends pants- we all tried.

Get pissed when a creep is taking photos of you and stalking your girl

get even more pissed when said creep is cuddled up the next day

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No doubt; it's like he thought he was in a lifetime original movie about highschool relationships when the rest of the characters were in It and he kind of acts as a destrcutive force and serves as an unintentional obstacle to their more serious narrative.