Controversial 💭: The Justice for Laura Fixation is a Byproduct of the Kat Hive
Go ahead and draw your swords to cut me in the comments and downvote me into oblivion. I’m prepared.
Laura was never intended to be more than a plot device to form the character and storyline of Dana/Leslie. Laura’s sole purpose was to introduce us to Leslle & Eva. We’ve seen Laura at most 6-8 episodes of soap now into its 2nd season. We’ve not even gotten so much as a FaceTime or text thread between Laura and Katherine her great avenger or her employer Nicole.
Shes a plot device, not a central or supporting character. To that end she’s served the extent of her purpose. To stage one of the show’s main characters and solidify her place as a villain.
I’ve said it before: there is not enough character development of Laura that explains the emotional attachment to “Justice for Laura,” it’s just a thinly veiled campaign for vindication for Katherine’s intuitive knowing being ignored.
There’s also the mistaking of soap plot development to be like prime time drama plot development. It just doesn’t go that way from a storytelling perspective.
Finally I think it’s funny how there’s a deep desire to punish and prosecute a Black woman before a White man who killed a Black main character so he could possess his wife 🤪 alright now, thanks for reading my screed and I’ll see you round the cookout 👋🏾