[spoiler]I don't feel bad for would be rapists
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Oh I know and he's an asshole and I don't feel bad for that either, man, but I just don't think that the character is inherently evil. I just think that Lori and Carl were two of the things keeping him stable.
[spoiler]I won't defend what Shane's almost did to Lori, but in the first episode he seemed so lonely, and he was talking about how things were really bad with his girl. The dude had -nothing- and after believing his best friend was dead he took on the role of a father figure and a protector to Lori. All that shit came crumbling down when Rick showed back up, literally vivisecting the little bit of good he had going on in his life. Now all he really has left is a girl he's in love with(Lori) that he can't ever go near and a shitty world full of zombies. Personally I say that both Shane and Lori are assholes. She didn't exactly wait for Rick's body to become cold before she started putting it to Shane. Besides, if she hadn't given Shane the impression that there was something between them that was more than just sex, he probably wouldn't be trying so hard to get through to her.[/spoiler]
Holy shit...I just realized if you replace "Shane" and "Lori" with "Luke" and "Laura", I sound exactly like a housewife talking about soap operas.