Well in all fairness, Steve could be quite a pest to Laura. She made no secret that she didn't feel as strongly about him as he did for her, but he wouldn't take no for an answer. I can't blame her for getting annoyed, I know I would be.
I won't deny that Laura could be unnecessarily cruel to Steve a few times, but he spent most of his time interfering with her relationships with other men. He was out of bounds there regardless if the other men in Laura's life were jerks or not.
Well, my problem with this is that I found Laura so incredibly shallow and bitchy. So I could hardly ever relate to her. And thus, when I watch Steve pestering Laura, my feeling is not "What a creep he is!", but "Why is the guy wasting all this time and energy on this one shallow bitch??? There must be other fish for him in the sea!!!" Like I've said before, I guess I'm more like Myra than Laura. So I would love to have a guy like Steve around.
It is not fair to ignore either that Steve would have been better boyfriend for Laura than the pretty boys, whom she would keep drooling over. Like you implied yourself, they were mostly jerks. And no matter what flaws Steve might have had, you wouldn't see him pressuring Laura into havng sex with him, lying about her having had sex with him, flirting around when he was on a date with her, or wanting to control who her friends were. Instead, he kept doing good things for the Winslows, including a CPR on Carl, when he got an electric shock from a boken lamp.
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Furienna (3330)
4 years ago
Like I said earlier, I was more like Myra than like Laura as a teenager. So I would have picked Steve over the "dreamy guys" in a split second! And I really don't have any understanding for Laura's shallow taste in boys, especially as (like you said yourself) her choices to go with popular hunks would often bite her in the butt. And no matter how common Laura's tastes are among "average" teeange girls, that is not relatable to me. Because I never was an "average" teenage girl myself, but a rebel with a taste for nerdy guys. Which is far from what Laura was.
Steve is maybe not everybody's Prince Charming. But if you list all of his flaws, it is very much possible for me to cancel them out with a list of all of his virtues. He might be clumsy and pushy and so on, but that is not his fault. Some people are tactless socially and can't help that.
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