Stranger Things Season 3's Robin And Steve Were Supposed To Start Dating

If it feels like there was a lot of chemistry between your preference fledgling best buds in Stranger Things Season 3, that's as the show's two #1 Scoops Ahoy staff were originally supposed to date.


Warning: this blog post contains spoilers for Stranger Things Season 3. 


Robin (Maya Hawke) and Steve (Joe Keery) just be with some satisfying drama and tension, which eventually culminates in a very different reaction than fans may have been hoping for. We think the pair are heading for a relationship with each other, as soon as it turns out Robin isn't actually interested in guys. And it's a long con that pays off in the most immense, beneficial way.


But as it turns out, Maya Hawke herself recently revealed that Robin coming out to Steve near the end of the season actually wasn't piece of the original script. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Maya admitted that the pair were certainly going to get with each other at first, so we may have been privy to a much different ending to the season in its original form.


while in filming, we began to feel like she and [Steve] shouldn’t get with each other, and that she’s gay. Even Whenever I go back and watch earlier episodes, it just seems like the most obvious decision ever," Hawke shared. She's right – and uncovering Robin's sexual identity is one of the most interesting parts of the ride that was Season 3. We couldn't have come up with a more brilliant conclusion to her character arc for these new episodes, especially considering she and Steve make the best dynamic duo.


Previously, Hawke also divulged while in a interview with Variety that the choice to change up Robin's sexuality actually happened around the fourth or fifth episode, so it was fairly late in the game any time things started to take shape.


"The Duffer brothers and I, and Shawn Levy, had a lot of conversations while in shooting and it also wasn’t really up until we were shooting episode four and five, I think, that we made the final decision," she mentioned. "It was sort of a collaborative conversation, and I’m really, really happy with the way that it went."


And in a move that proves why we're so in love with Hawke as Robin and her character, she added:


“Sometimes we can have empathy for people on screen that we wouldn’t normally have empathy for in real life. If I can hope for anything it’s that maybe some people fell in love with Robin and that helped them fall in love with ladies who love women and men who love males We truly have no choice nevertheless to stan – and continue to gush over the great Steve and Robin relationship that formed in Season 3.