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SPOILERS Best Reason to Hate Lori in The Walking Dead

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Beverly W.:
Why does everyone hate Lori in The Walking Dead so much? I think it's arguable that Andrea deserves much more hate (first she wants to die, then she's mad she didn't get to commit suicide then she's going to save a whole town that she loves even though it's run by a madman? Yeah okay). Shane was a HUGE douchecanoe on a whole host of levels (have we forgotten attempted rape? That is seriously messed up). Even our beloved Rick deserves a little hate for his batshit insanity in S3. I just don't get all the Lori hate when there are soooo many other people to hate on. Please explain.
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I agree that there’s plenty of hate to spread around in The Walking Dead; its absence of likable characters has been my chief complaint in my recaps (although I might clarify that I think Andrea is much more annoying than she is evil or loathsome). Some people hate Lori for hooking up with Shane days after her husband supposedly died, but I personally give her a pass on that because 1) she and Rick were on the verge of divorcing before Rick got shot, and 2) it’s the zombie apocalypse, shit happens.

But there are still plenty of reasons why Lori is the worst character on a show of terrible characters. First is her completely awful scene where she tells Andrea that standing watch is a man’s job and the women should be in the house doing laundry. She also thinks of herself as a mother first and foremost, but never, ever, ever keeps track of Carl (she also didn’t want Carl to learn to shoot guns, which would be perfectly reasonable if it weren’t, you know, the zombie fucking apocalypse). She complained constantly through the first two seasons, she managed to crash her car on a completely empty road, and she has no concept of her new reality.

But her biggest problem, by far, was the time she went full-on Lady MacBeth and told Rick to kill Shane, then when Rick killed Shane, she recoiled in horror from him. She was actually crazy during the entire Rick/Shane situation — randomly loving or hating each one, even though one was the father of her child and one tried to rape her — but her horrible judgment of Rick for something she’d told him to do is definitely reason #1 I and many, many otherWalking Dead viewers are glad she’s dead.
 
Before I make any sort of opinionated reply... Wtf does kitten mean when used as a verb?

Edit: kill, murder, rape
 
Righto, well that's sorted. The characters I disliked are dead now. Those characters were the two extremes in the group. Shane being one and the old guy with the RV being the other. Lori was confusing and annoying, but imo season 2 sucked in general. Too much drama all in all to be honest. Lori was definitely one lost woman though, she, like the old rv guy was just hell bent on not adapting to the world around them. This is why there are no dodo birds anymore. People like lori, are Dodo birds.
 
You aren't supposed to really like the characters on The Walking Dead. At least not in the same sense that you would in certain other shows or TV. I mean this is the gritty, bloody complete collapse of society.
 
Daryl, with Li'L Asskicker peeking out of a backpack, road-tripping across the USA on his motorcycle, kicking ass and saving the day. Everyone else can go be boring and dramatic somewhere off-screen, where we won't get annoyed at them making stupid decisions or generally being incompetent when the writers need it to create some artificial danger.

Seriously, Andrea handily fought off three teleporting zombies while pinned to a tree by one of them but then she can't fend off one zombie three episodes later? I'm glad she's dead, but she died in a retarded way. Not that she deserved better, I guess. "On the one hand, zombie coliseum, brothers being forced to fight to the death, a wall full of heads, general suspicious as fuck behavior, it seems like something is amiss here... but on the other hand my nether regions are all aflutter. Welp, guess I'll stay and get porked some more by this strong, handsome clearly -a-psychopath Guv'nor." Way to be a strong fucking role model, Andrea. Jesus Christ.
 
I was actually gonna post something about The Walking Dead but you beat me to it. I fucking love it!! I'm watching season 1 again right now even though I have seen it several times already. It is without a doubt my favorite show on tv right now. I'm pretty much addicted to it. I'm glad there is another fan on this forum. That just makes us super cool. Yay zombies!!

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watching online: The Walking Dead Season 3 DVD
 
Sometimes I see myself rooting for the zombies just so the annoying characters are killed off the show. Thankfully most of them are gone, now its just a waiting game until season 4 starts up. CAN NOT WAIT!!! (insert zombie smiley here)
 
Sometimes I see myself rooting for the zombies just so the annoying characters are killed off the show. Thankfully most of them are gone, now its just a waiting game until season 4 starts up. CAN NOT WAIT!!! (insert zombie smiley here)

and nobody important (Glen) got hurt.
 
I really hope this season is better then the last two.. But alas I will continue to watch regardless until the show gets canceled haha.

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