The Grimes' Family Stupidity

I can fill out a 400 word post on how stupid the decisions of the Grimes family (Rick, Lori, and Carl) have been on "The Walking Dead" series. And I'm sure it's been done to death on message boards, blog, Twitter, fan pages and discussed on Mondays during lunch breaks. So I'm not going to do 400 words. Just a fraction of that and I will let you (whoever reads this) to decide if I'm right or add to this.

I'm just going to list the latest ones because there are too many.

Randall: Why go through so much effort to save him? Yes, it's been established that Rick Grimes is an honest man, a former sheriff that has a conscience. He's saving a man that tried to kill him and Glenn and Herschel. That could have costed more lives on the farm. Protect what's yours now. He can't arrest him or take him to a hospital and put a deputy to guard him and then stick him in the "pokey". Taking a seriously injured man to the farm and use up whatever meds and first aid they have left to them and then do what? Is this some man that wants to take in what seems to be a criminal? Endanger his family and friends and other survivors? Even worse, Randall mentioned knowing Maggie and about the farm. Then why take him there? And then sitting in the back seat so his leg gushes all over the back seat increasing the odds that he bleeds out before reaching the farm. Then drive over 18 miles away looking for a place to release him and "give him a chance". To then fight almost to the death over him (Though to be fair, there were some underlying issues between Rick and Shane). Then return with him and keep him chained up as a prisoner while his fate is decided. And once his fate is decided, then to not pull the trigger in what is one other thing that we as viewers KNOW will come back to bite him and the group.

F you, Rick! Hand over the reins of the group to Shane and go off and tend to your Olive Oil wife and son who needs you so you don't have him running off and making stupid decisions like grabbing a gun like a kid that finds his daddy's gun and wants to show it off in school and then tease the hell out of a walker almost getting killed. Where is Lori during all this? Wasn't she the one that said the women needed to tend to things around the farm? Doesn't that include watching your son, Carl? The same one that turned you into a blubbering mess when he was shot in the chest? Didn't you see what happened to Sophia in the woods? Why is your son unsupervised in the woods? You couldn't be THAT busy. Oh, and Sophia was the one that died because Rick had her go inside a cave. Yes, she should have stayed in there. But what was he thinking in the first place? No wonder so many people feel that Daryl is their favorite character. No wonder in my household no one seems to hate Shane the way Dale and a few of the others seem to.

There is some sloppy writing in this post which is customary for me but it's more this time because of the topic. This is a rant. On many shows, characters do stupid things because that's part of the plot and part of those characters and their motivations and beliefs. We may not like it but it makes for good drama when handled right. (See "The Shield", "The Wire", "Justified", "Southland") But here?! It smells like ...sniff...sloppy writing! I can be sloppy. What excuse do the writers of the show have?