Medan den här artikeln inte uttryckligen säger varför hon är supermaktad, förklaras det i en intervju med co-skaparen (Michael Green) om varför hennes roll är så utökad i serien mot boken:
It was one of the earliest conversations Bryan and I had, sitting down to talk about our goals for a series adaptation: who gets expanded? And the first name on the top of that list was Laura Moon. She's very compelling in the book. Her scenes are extremely memorable and well-wrought. But she spends a lot of time off-screen and that seemed like the opportunity to deviate some.
Även aktörens styrka (Emily Browning) valt att spela rollen spelar också en roll i det:
Once we had Emily Browning saying that she wanted to inhabit the role, the idea of making her the third lead in the show, which we'd always imagined the character Laura to be, was very easy and was very comforting. Because we wanted more of Emily Browning
Alla utdrag ur en intervju med honom, citerad vid Cinema Blend .
Detta bekräftas också av Neil Gaiman, som visas i den här artikeln , citat från Neil Gaiman:
Hopefully for Browning, “Git Gone” will strike a chord with viewers — at the very least, both Whittle and Gaiman loved it. “People say ‘which is your favorite episode?’ and I say ‘probably Episode 4,'” Gaiman said. “The joy of Episode 4, for me, is that it’s absolutely part of the ‘American Gods’ world and there’s almost not a single line that I wrote in the book in there. It’s just, you pull back and go ‘while this stuff was happening over here, this stuff is happening over here.'”
Även från Gaiman förklarar han i den här artikeln att boken är skriven från skuggans synvinkel, så Laura är inte så mycket i den och att han har tänkt på att skriva en från hennes synvinkel också, men serien är chansen att stärka sin karaktär:
One of the things they did get right? Expanding the show beyond Shadow’s journey. Laura Moon’s bulk-up is a standout, and for good reason. “She’s one of the most important people in the book. She’s just not in it very much because the book is from Shadow’s point of view. We can never know more than Shadow knows,” said Gaiman. “I occasionally toyed with the idea of writing American Gods that would have been Laura’s story.”
“Now we get that chance. American Gods is a TV show with lots of people and our camera no longer needs to be on Shadow all the time. Some of my favorite scenes are scenes that could not have existed in the book,” Gaiman continued. Creating something new is the driving force behind the Gaiman & Fuller collaboration, Gaiman especially delighted in seeing what Fuller brought to the fold."
Så medan inte exakta förklaringar verkar det som om det är allt med Gaimans välsignelse och det är inget som han inte har tänkt på tidigare.
Redigera: Hittade även den här artikeln , som hävdar att det är på grund av Mad Sweeneys mynt:
So long as it stays burrowed deep in her embalmed chest, the coin will continue to tie her spirit to her body, giving her superhuman strength — even as her flesh continues to rot.
Det här är också vad som finns på wikiasidan:
Object-based power: Mad Sweeney's "lucky" gold coin imbibes him with supernatural strength and unnatural prosperity. When he loses his coin to Shadow, Laura ends up with the coin's power, as seen in "Git Gone."