Remember how Lori looked when she was pregnant? Stick-thin everywhere except for her ridiculously swollen abdomen. It’s male, completely stick-thin everywhere in its body except for his abdomen, which is swollen to ridiculous proportions. Let’s take a moment to really look at this zombie. (Somehow, her boots and clothing are pushed neatly off to the side and there is no trace of her body.) Rick finds the bullet’s shell casing and a gargling sound leads him to the walker that’s eaten Lori whole. “Hounded” has Rick finding the room where Lori gave birth. “Say the Word” leaves Lori looking like a saint while Rick just appears insane, though it’s pretty easy to see why he’s on his trip to Crazy Town. He shows no regard to how the baby is going to live past this point without her mother. When last we saw Rick, he’d gone on a walker-killing rampage in his attempt to find his wife’s body, leaving his newly-born child and pre-teen son with the rest of the group. ![]() Lori and her pregnancy and birthing become an important image later in the next episode (“Hounded”). The main episode that struck me was season three, episode six, “Hounded.” Lori has died in the episode before this (“Say the Word”), and has done arguably the most selfless thing throughout her time on the show: told Maggie Green to cut her unborn child out of her so that she may live, while Lori will surely die. Despite Rick being all right with the possibility of his wife carrying his now-dead crazy best friend’s child, he’s finally snapped and only sees Lori as someone who needs his protection out of obligation-not out of any sense of love. Carl’s told to step up, and as he does, he mirrors his father’s rejection of Lori.Īt the beginning of the third season, Lori and Rick basically don’t talk to one another besides survival necessities. You can argue that they’re trying to shield him from the world they’re in, but that’s pretty naïve, and I think that once Lori gets pregnant, they finally realize they’ve been going about this new-world parenting thing the wrong way. They’re both pretty bad parents, if we’re being completely honest.īoth of them never seem to know where Carl is and simply tell him to “get back in the house” without giving him a sense of direction or purpose. However, people also have a generally negative response-a VERY negative response-toward Lori, and that’s myself included. ![]() ![]() People seem to have a generally positive response toward Rick for taking the lead and keeping his family and “his people” safe with his “stuff and thangs.” My main concern was with Rick and Lori Grimes, our main protagonists and-let’s face it-their own antagonists as well. But when I watched it this time around, I wanted to pay more attention to what this show was trying to tell its viewers. I recently started re-watching The Walking Dead so that I could prepare myself for the return of the sixth season.
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