User blog comment:AustinDR/Is Lori A Bad Character?/@comment-4618045-20170806105120

I think you did a good job at explaining Lori here. Because she has more screen time than most of the other sisters, it has made her among the more fleshed out. By "bland", I'm assuming you mean that her character isn't as recognizable a label as say "rocker" or "jock" or something like that. When you examine her character in what makes her tick, I don't think that's bland at all.

Overall, Lori is a polarizing character because even though we can understand her motivation a lot of the time, said motivation leads to actions that aren't very likable. For example, I don't like "No Guts No Glori" because it relies on the characters acting uncharacteristically stupid to make it seem like Lori is the only person that could ever keep the House from literally falling apart. Even if we disregard the fact that the parents exist, there are clearly instances where Lori has acted upon her more selfish and childlike instincts that I believe undermine that notion. Would you want your babysitter to be the same person that drags someone six years younger than them and endangers them through reckless driving and unreasonable coercion? To me, "No Guts No Glori" and other similar instances are really only the insecurity at play (even if it's not stated on screen). I think it would be interesting to see an episode where Lori is forced to confront this aspect about herself.