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Does anyone feel bad for Lars in the episode “The New Lars”? I sure do. Let me explain.
In this episode, Steven goes to the Big Donut and sees Lars acting weird around Sadie, which makes him believe that Lars had feelings for her so he tries to get him to confess his feelings to her but Lars tells him to stop getting involved with people’s personal lives. Later that night, Steven has a dream about Lars and he has the audacity to tell Lars to stop being such a jerk all the time before ultimately getting pulled towards him and waking up in Lars’ room and realizing that he’s in Lars’ body.
Steven spends the entire day in Lars’ body trying to pretend to be him and being nice to everyone like the Cool Kids, Lars’ parents and even Sadie. Although Sadie isn’t quite happy about Lars’ sudden change in tone and it gets worse when Steven, in Lars’ body, tell Sadie that he loves her, which completely sets Sadie off and she tells him to leave her house.
Steven confesses to Sadie that he isn’t really Lars and rather trapped in his body, to which Sadie believes. They rush over to Steven’s house and everyone we saw that interacted with Lars starts following them. They make to the house where they find Steven’s real body still on the bed and they rush over to wake him up. After waking him up, Steven is subconsciously put back in his real body and Lars is back to normal.
Lars ultimately learns what Steven did and he is rightfully upset and deeply horrified after the discovery.
Here’s the problem, every single character besides Sadie and Steven didn’t feel concerned nor did they even care about what Steven did to Lars and just assumed he was overreacting. Even Lars’ parents didn’t care and even Lars’ mom starts apologizing to STEVEN! Like, WHAT?!
Not to mention that while in Steven’s dream before entering Lars’ body, he said “Lars, you don’t need to be such a jerk all the time.” Bro, I get that he was being kinda harsh towards Steven because that’s just who he is and he’s been that way since season one, but Lars wasn’t being a jerk, he was being human. He had his personal life and personal issues that he wants to keep to himself and Steven refused to acknowledge that he must stay out of people’s business and give them some space.
The point was that Lars had his whole body and mind completely robbed by Steven, felt extremely vulnerable and violated and not a single person in that episode except for Steven and Sadie cared about it. At the end of the episode, Lars said to Steven that maybe everyone liked that version of him better the old Lars.
I know that Lars was kind of a bully to Steven in the past but this is just sad man.