"Fear The Walking Dead" gave us a really interesting episode, titled "Laura." The episode followed John Dorie and Naomi, or as John knows her, Laura. This episode did something that "The Walking Dead" has never done before. It gave us a love story and it was one of the best flashback episodes I think I have ever seen.
The episode opens with John laying in bed as he is woken up by a singing fish alarm clock, it sings "Take me to the river." It also fits really well, as not 5 minutes later, John is taken to the river where he meets Naomi, also known as Laura, who washed up on shore. They develop a bond very quickly as she ends up trusting John to do her stitches on a wound. Getting back to John, his life is fairly normal, he wakes up in the morning, does some chores, cleans his guns, then sits back and watches some movies on what looks like VHS. He even goes to the store and checks them out. I personally find John to be such an interesting character, in a sense that he is a man just trying to live a somewhat normal life.
This was a very dialogue heavy episode, not only that, the writing was superb. Naomi had been featured in a handful of episodes up until this one and they made me love Naomi's character in just 45 minutes. Similar situation with John, who I was starting to like, but now John has become my favorite character in the whole franchise. Yes, not series, the franchise as in both shows. John's story about why he doesn't like guns is very sad. He went into a convenience store one night and it was being robbed, John was going to shoot him in the leg, but the man turned and he shot him in the wrong place and he bled out, which is why he moved to his little cabin.
Ultimately, Naomi wants to leave and John proclaims his love for her. She stays another night and is gone in the morning. It's actually heartbreaking because you are rooting for these two. I knew that Naomi would leave as she ends up at the Stadium, I was just hoping she wouldn't. John and Naomi are two characters that I really hope get reunited, as of now in this show, Alicia claims she is dead after the fall of the stadium which made John upset. I think Naomi made it out and she is with Madison because there has to be a happy ending here. But if there isn't, then I guess we will have to deal with that. Until Naomi is confirmed as dead, I am holding out hope.
