Lori gets a lot of hate for ''cheating'' on Rick and ''ruining'' his friendship with Shane, even having memes being made about it, yet I've never seen Shane get slated for his part in Rick and Lori's marriage collapsing. Whilst Lori and Shane are both bad for getting together after Rick's ''death'', if you ask me who was worse, it's Shane by a mile. Let's break it down - Rick and Shane have been best friends since high school. Shane has known Rick a lot longer than Lori so he has a special bond with him, I'm not saying his bond with Rick is stronger than Rick's bond with his wife, but it's up there for sure. Under no circumstances should you ever go after your best friend's partner/ spouse. Shane has known Lori for a long time too, he was likely there as best man for Rick during their wedding and probably harboured some feeling for her, but was obviously never gonna act on it at the time.
We know Rick and Lori were having problems in their marriage as evidenced when Rick tells Shane in the pilot episode, so Shane was clearly waiting for his opportunity. So when Rick gets shot and the zombie apocalypse happens, this was the perfect time for Shane to finally make his move on her. Lori was clearly in a vulnerable state and Shane took advantage of it. First, she'd been having problems in her marriage, which was on the verge of a split and divorce, then her husband gets shot and is in a coma, then zombies have taken over the world and she and her son have to survive, and finally Shane tells her Rick had died. Of course Shane didn't know that Rick hadn't died so we can't really blame him there. Lori was at her lowest point and Shane saw it and made his move on her. She likely rebuffed him several times before giving in.
For all we know their relationship probably started just a few days before Rick's return at the Atlanta camp, not a week after his ''death'' like most people think. So is there any reason why Shane doesn't get criticised for ruining their marriage? It takes two to tango at the end of the day. Shane is essentially a homewrecker but he gets no blame whatsoever. Whenever Lori gets brought up by fans, it's always ''I hate Lori'' or ''Lori cheated on Rick'' or ''Lori was a bad mother'' but when Shane gets brought up it's always ''Shane was the best'' or ''Shane was ahead of his time'' or ''Shane would've beat Negan and the Governor easily'' Nothing said about his part in ruining Rick and Lori's marriage.
Submitted May 16, 2022 at 03:49AM by Skywalker_1995 https://ift.tt/Kw9zSDn
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