Why do you think Laurie is Red's favorite of his sons? :)
Hi! Thank you SO much for the question! Before I start Igotta say that I actually really love Red and Laurie’s relationship. It may notbe the healthiest or the most honest but there’s a lot of heart and love there.I love how much it felt like a real father/daughter relationship with their littlemoments and interactions in the show.
I think there are several reasons why Laurie is the one whoRed tends to favor the most. First of all, she was his first born, his firstchild and a lot of times first born children hold a very special place in aparents heart. Yes, this is coming from a first born.
Laurie is also Red’s only daughter. She was a classic Daddy’sGirl in the show and we can only imagine how much of a Daddy’s Girl she must havebeen growing up! Always at Red’s side, running to him when she got was scaredor had gotten in trouble with Kitty. And you just know Young Laurie had Redwrapped around her little finger too, getting him to talk Kitty down on thepunishments and such.
When Laurie was a little girl I think she and Red must havebeen very close. We’ve always heard about how Kitty would baby Eric a lot andso while that must have been going on, Laurie must have been spending more timewith her father and that relationship they’ve had since she was younger carriedon as she got older.
To Red, Laurie was his little girl and even when he realizesthat she does things he doesn’t approve of he’s still going to be there for herwhen she needs him. Red once told Laurie that she wasn’t his little girlanymore, that she was his daughter but honestly, I think even after that, Redcontinued to see Laurie as his little girl who he tries to be there for, toprotect, and stand up for.
Another reason I think Red tends to favor Laurie is becausethey have a lot more in common. When Eric and Laurie were growing up I could definitelysee Laurie being more of the tougher, fearless one of the two. Like Red, Lauriereally doesn’t care much about what people think of her and there are evenfewer people that she actually shows she care about—the main one of thosepeople being Red.
As the show went on Red became more aware of some of thethings Laurie was really up to but he’d continue to pretend like he didn’t knowthese things because Laurie tried to hide them from him too. She wasn’tflaunting her behavior around him because she loved and respected him too much todo that to him. Red was one of the last few people who really believed that shewas a good person and I don’t think Laurie wanted to lose that.
There were many, many men in Laurie Forman’s life but theone man who always matter the most to her, who’s love and opinion meant themost to her was Red’s.