I felt sad because of how everyone else reacted....but she was not my favorite. Her consistently bad choices bad it hard to love her.

 

I live my life off topic. BOOM!

 

I think that might be deliberate. You've got a small group of people against a world turned into teleporting people-eaters. They're the ultimate underdogs. Now, you make them thoroughly unlikeable and there's a lot more emotional turmoil for viewers as they're rooting for the underdogs but also somewhat hoping to see them die horribly.












Or it could just be a bad decision in character direction by the writers. In season 1, Lori, Dale and Rick were the only ones I was actually looking forward to seeing become zombie bait. By the end of this previous season, Carol, Beth, and Li'l Asskicker (and maybe Maggie) are the only ones for whom I'm NOT actively anticipating pain and death (and they'll probably make the list by the end of the upcoming season).

 

If that was what he was shooting for, he should have had a longer period of time where Rick was on his own. As it was, what you saw was this sincere guy desperately looking for his family for 2 weeks who finds his wife already happily shacked up with his best friend.

That's what made me personally dislike her - the fact that the zombie apocalypse seemed to be her chance to look for another man while her existing man was torturing himself with the task of looking for her and Carl. Of course, what made me dislike him was how he pretty much ignored them when he found them while the asshole of the group had been a more attentive father and "husband" than he turned out to be.

 

Oh, it's not like they were strangers. There's no doubt they were all close pre-ZA.

My point was that either they were actively having an affair pre-ZA or she jumped at the chance that dead men rising offered - neither of which makes her a likeable character whose plight I could sympathize with. In fact, I'd be more sympathetic if she'd hooked up with a complete stranger. If that were the case, you could argue that she was selling herself in exchange for the safety of herself and her son. With such a close friend of the family as Shane was, you can't make that argument because he'd have taken care of them anyway.

Now, if Rick hadn't been with the group for several months you could say Lori and Shane just eventually fell for each other because they were relying on each other so much, but to have it happen so quickly is... unseemly.

 

That's interesting. I always felt that Lori was written in a way which made her fairly hard to like. There were moments where I felt sorry for her, such as when Shane forced himself on her in the CDC, but she mostly just came off as someone who wanted everything 'her way.'

I understand what they were trying to do with her, though. It's difficult to create a flawed and conflicted character, but still make that character likeable. I kind of get the impression that they were trying to give it another shot with Andrea in season 3, but it still didn't work.

 

Absolutely! Merle was a great example. I feel like Lori would have been a very difficult character to write.

 

I agree. I'm glad she had that final moment to explain her actions.

 

Smart kid your son.

 

Who would Merle's perfect woman be?

 

I have no clue what this thread is about! :$