Positive, on paper, it might not seem to be a lot. Steve, in any case, not solely stays in Hawkins when characters like Nancy, Jonathan, Robin, and Will depart their former lives behind, however he’s actually nonetheless employed at the highschool all of them as soon as attended. However arrested growth this isn’t. In reality, Steve is the character who, by the story’s finish, appears most at peace with himself, who’s content material in a means that it’s not fully clear another character on the sequence’ canvas has but managed to attain. Maybe it’s because the occasions of Stranger Issues have already required Steve to confront the individual he’s been and the one he needs to turn into in additional direct methods than a few of his buddies, or perhaps it’s simply because he’s the type of one who was all the time meant for an easier type of life. Both means, it really works.
But, whereas Steve’s life is probably smaller than he as soon as thought it might become, it’s wealthy in that means (and apparently additionally money, if he’s already planning to purchase actual property on the ripe outdated age of perhaps 20 years outdated). He’s a instructor and a coach, serving to to form the youth of Hawkins in methods which can be much less straight associated to the potential finish of the world however which can be no much less impactful.
It’s not an accident that just about each child on his baseball crew is without doubt one of the 12 Vecna kidnapped, that means that Steve is nonetheless shepherding and defending those that want his assist. (His six nuggets have primarily turn into a dozen at this level.) He’s happening street journeys with Dustin throughout his summer time school breaks. He’s relationship, regularly and unsuccessfully it appears, however nonetheless with a watch towards settling down. (Presumably, he nonetheless needs these six nuggets of his personal.) And regardless of every part that’s occurred there, he’s nonetheless in a position to see the sweetness in Hawkins, sufficient that he by no means appears to have even thought-about making his life elsewhere.
There’s loads of stuff to nitpick in relation to the ways in which the Duffer brothers selected to wrap up this present. (See additionally: Eleven’s bold disappearance, the inexplicable MacGuffin house rock that corrupted Henry, the over-the-top violence of Vecna’s demise.) However the truth that the present does so proper by certainly one of its most beloved fan favorites goes an extended strategy to making this finale a hit, even when it’d depart you questioning why everybody couldn’t be afforded this identical remedy.
