In general, the buckets of blood soaking both Laura and Shadow = such a Bryan Fuller image. She kicked a dude's spine clean out of his body. But the scene where a newly preternaturally-strong Laura literally rips the faceless goons to pieces, even sproinging up to cut Shadow down from the tree, was brilliant.
Besides taking Laura's story straight through to where we left off on American Gods Season 1 Episode 3, we also found out that it was Laura who saved Shadow from Technical Boy's goons back on the American Gods Series Premiere.Īesthetically, everything about this hour was flawless and visually just stunning.
Though "Git Gone" didn't forward the narrative in any sense, it did fill in the blanks. Shadow, for all his faults and questionable thievery choices, seemed like a pretty fantastic husband in the flashbacks. But it does provide a decent explanation for why she'd so callously cheat on someone who adored her so much. Obviously, this makes her pretty much a shitty person. This atheistic perception led her to live a callous life, uncaring of the effects of her actions on others. She didn't care whether she hurt Shadow, or Audrey, or even Robbie.Īnubis was right on the money when he judged Laura shortly before condemning her to an eternity of nothingness: she believed in nothing.Īnubis: In life, you believed in nothing. She didn't explain much of her reasoning aloud, but it was clear that she didn't have feelings for Robbie either – she shut him down pretty harshly in that car scene right before she died, when he tried to convince her to leave Shadow for him.Īgain, the Robbie affair was just sort of a time filler. While Shadow was away in jail, Laura quickly engaged in an affair with Robbie. She even admitted it to Audrey in the car, after her resurrection. It was visible to everyone (except, apparently, Shadow) that she didn't really love him. Same deal at the first barbecue scene with Audrey and Robbie. When Laura and Shadow married, she could hardly bring herself to look excited. The idea of "Laura as fallen god" (metaphorically) for Shadow also fits when you consider what he said to Wednesday on American Gods Season 1 Episode 3 about not believing in love until he met Laura. And that was after he was only in jail in the first place because he went along with her "foolproof" casino robbery plan. While alive, Laura was a kind of deity to Shadow – he completely idealized and idolized her, to the point where he literally took a longer jail sentence in order to keep her out of trouble. In various fan forums about the novel, I've seen a particularly interesting take on the Shadow/Laura relationship that I do think applies in the show. On the flip side, Shadow clearly worshipped his wife while she was alive. Laura's life (and intended afterlife) was a deluge of nothingness and emptiness.įor Laura, Shadow was meant to fill a hole in her life. But in Laura's case, this seemed an obvious choice to emphasize the fact that she just desperately wanted to feel something – anything.
Obviously, people like rougher sex for all kinds of reasons. He quickly got the idea, and they had rougher (and really smokin' hot) sex, watched by Laura's cat. Shadow initiated sex softly and tenderly. Starting from the very moment they first hooked up, it was clear that Laura and Shadow were not looking for the same thing. Of course, that's not what happened at all.
They'd have fallen in love, and day by day, Laura's life would've gotten a little bit brighter. In a more straightforward, cheerful (and honestly, boring) story, Laura meeting Shadow would've been the standard rom-com meet cute that changes her life, inspires her to do more.