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Do you remember the deadbeat Byers father from the first season of Stranger Things ? Of course you don’t. Played by the veteran actor Ross Partridge, his name was Lonnie—which, again, no reason why you’d remember that either. The character was a cliché bad-dad: sleazy white tank top, messy hair, soulless loser, and the ex-husband to Winona Ryder’s Joyce Byers. She kicks him out of the house after just four episodes.

Get this: At the end of season 1, Lonnie was supposed to miraculously return, fight the villainous Demogorgon, protect all the kiddos, and save the day. But he didn’t. While filming season 1, series creators Matt and Ross Duffer slowly fell in love with a different character: The too-cool-for-school bully, Steve Harrington, who was supposed to die early in t

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