You’ve got to appreciate a good thing when you’ve got it.

So let’s be thankful the creative team behind Stranger Things appreciate the world’s love for one Steve Harrington (Joe Keery), highschooler-turned-spiritual dad for the kids of Hawkins, Indiana. Don’t worry, this fan favourite isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

“Honestly, the day Steve Harrington dies is the day I walk off this show,” executive producer Shawn Levy promised to TVLine during last Sunday’s PaleyFest panel. “I just can’t live in a world without Steve Harrington. And I think a lot of us feel that way.”

Levy added that: “Steve is safe — at least for now. And you need to say like, ‘Shawn’s voice dropped an octave sounding weirdly spooky about it.’” Wait, is this is a bluff?

He even made promises at the event that he’ll have a much bigger role in the next season.”We’ll definitely get to see some more of Steve Harrington in season three, and I’ll just say we won’t be abandoning the Dad Steve magic. I don’t want to say much more, but I literally feel that we were walking along and we stumbled onto a gold mine with Dad Steve,” Levy said.

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We also discovered that the third season would, once more, take place a year after the second season, during the summer of 1985. Furthermore, as suggested by the show’s school dance scene, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Mike (Finn Wolfhard) will be a couple, alongside Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Max (Sadie Sink).

“Mike and Eleven and are going strong, so that’s a relationship that continues, and same with Mad Max and Lucas. But Again, they’re like 13 or 14-year-old kids, so what does romance mean at that stage of life? It can never be simple and stable relationships and there’s fun to that instability,” Levy said.

And, since it’ll be 1985, and Stranger Things loves to keep up its references, Back to the Future will be referenced, since it hit cinemas that very year.