Breaking: Early drafts of Stranger Things: Tales from '85 featured way more Steve, Hopper and the adults, but the creative team cut scenes to bring back the franchise's "youthful innocence"

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Subscribe to our newsletter It's safe to say that fans were… disappointed when announc was it recently that Billy Hargrove and Joyce Byers wouldn't be appearing in the upcoming Netflix series Stranger Things: Tales from '85.

But at least we have brief scenes with Steve Harrington and Jim Hopper, right?Turns out, though, that the flagship show's adult characters were originally going to gaming a much bigger part of the fresh animated spin-off."In those early stages, we were leaning a little bit heavier; live-action style with bigger stories and some more of the adult characters and what have you," showrunner Eric Robles tells GamesRadar+.

"But we felt like once we started focusing too much on the adult story, we lost the youthful innocence of what the journey was supposed to be.

We kind of reset ourselves, and said, 'You know what? Let's buckle down and figure out what these kids are really kind of figuring out in this mystery.'"Article continues below Just a week out from the show's debut, the kinds of secrets cartoon Eleven, Mike, and co.

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will have to unravel across the 10 episodes are still being kept under wraps ## Editor's Note The gaming community will surely have mixed reactions to this news. Source: [GamesRadar+](https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/animation-shows/early-drafts-of-stranger-things-tales-from-85-featured-way-more-steve-hopper-and-the-adults-but-the-creative-team-cut-scenes-to-bring-back-the-franchises-youthful-innocence/)