Embora este artigo não explique explicitamente por que ela é superpoderosa, isso é explicado em uma entrevista com o co-criador (Michael Green) sobre por que seu papel é tão expandido na série versus o livro:
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.
Além disso, a força da atriz (Emily Browning) escolhida para desempenhar o papel também desempenha um papel nisso:
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
Todos os trechos extraídos de uma entrevista com ele, citado no Cinema Blend .
Isso também é corroborado por Neil Gaiman, como mostrado
Também de Gaiman, ele explica: moon-bryan-fuller "> neste artigo que o livro é escrito do ponto de vista de Shadow, então Laura não está nisso e que ele pensou em escrever um do ponto de vista dela também, mas a série é a chance de fortalecer seu personagem: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.'”
Portanto, embora não sejam explicações exatas, parece que é tudo com a bênção de Gaiman e não é nada sobre o que ele não tenha pensado antes.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."
Edit: Também encontrado este artigo , que afirma que é por causa da moeda de Mad Sweeney:
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.
Este também é o que está no site da wikia:
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."