Other mistake: In the beginning when Kali and her gang are running from the police in Pittsburgh and she "collapses" the tunnel, her 008 tattoo is shown this way so we can read it as such, but it should in fact be read 800 to be the correct way. (00:03:15)
Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab - S4-E7
Other mistake: When Hooper was trying to light the alcohol-soaked rag to make a torch, his lighter wasn't working at first. He finally got a flame at the last minute. However, the sparks alone should have been enough to ignite the flammable rag. (01:00:33 - 01:02:03)
Answer: Technically Steve was never intended to die in Stranger Things. The Duffer brothers wrote a pilot script for a miniseries called Montauk that would eventually become Stranger Things. In that version of the story Steve is a more overtly villainous character and is killed by a monster. The Steve character was reworked once Stranger Things was created due to Joe Keery's more likeable approach to the character.
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