These are all very fine reasons! I think part of it for me is that I only watched the first couple of seasons at the time, and she doesn't realise her full awesome potential until later. Or, you know, I just needed to grow up enough to put the blame for some things on the narrative, not the character.

And Kristin is just ridiculously pretty. Even when I disliked Lana, I loved her in other roles (her short cameo in the otherwise horrid Eurotrip filled me with glee!).