Wheel of Time Interview with Kate Fleetwood: All About Liandrin Sedai 

I'm reading for the first time (on book 5 now) and every time she shows up it's just instant dread

The WAFO was tremendous!

Or she thinks the way to Nynaeve's heart specifically is through her stomach!

People tend to try and gift things they themselves would want to be given. As Liandrin grew up very poor, I think her first reaction is to offer food to Nynaeve; someone she may think also comes from a humble background.

I'm getting less of a homosexual or heterosexual feel from that face touch and more of a molesty feel

@@pueblonative It was both. Liandrin lusts after Moiraine, but she also lusts for power and for control. And she'll take whichever she can get.

Do you think maybe they had a fling in the past? Or is just one sided from liadrin?

Everything she said about the book character factually tracks. She hasn't read past TGH but actors are often instructed not to read too far ahead. Not sure what you're referring to unless it's just a matter of taste. I have issues with the show but Liandrin's portrayal is NOT among them.

​​ @Dreamchain17 As much as I don't mind her portrayal and think she did a great job of being sus the actual character is nothing at all like the book character. The book character is very formal and never nice. One particular statement being made in the comments and in the interview is that everyone thinks they are the hero in their own story. I disagree with this she very clearly understands she is evil and she doesn't care. She actively thinks every other person is beneath her. In the show I can't understand why she would care that her red sisters would find some man she meets? Are we now saying that she has some lover? Or are we supposed to misinterpret that while she is actually meeting some darkfriends? Why would she care if her red sisters go to find some darkfriend? How would they know thats what he is? She could just say he was part of her eyes and ears. I think it doesn't make sense unless her character is not acting as she should. Maybe they are going to drop her ajah from the books altogether. I would of leaned more that it was just bad writing before this interview but now I wonder if they even bothered to tell her her book character or perhaps have changed her so much that they thought it was not worth doing. "The little girl in her says I have gone too far" Another statement that is imo a huge red flag. Her little girl is dead, her soul is sold, to frame anything that way is to either not know the character or to be playing a different character altogether.

@@JoshTruff I think this is just your personal taste. Her very first POV is about her being afraid of sunsets and sunrises because it's when the day/night dies. Just because someone is a bad person doesn't mean they don't experience fear, doubt, or anxiety. Very few people are "never nice." You assume that because you see her interacting with people in specific hierarchies of power--fellow Aes Sedai, novices and Accepted, etc. The show shows her trying to influence someone she doesn't have institutional power over--Nynaeve, which by the way she's failing miserably at. I'm also not sure where you get the idea she thinks she's evil. Just because she thinks others are beneath her doesn't mean she thinks she's evil. Maybe I haven't read a Liandrin POV recently enough, but she's not a sociopath in the way, say, Alviarin is. Most bad people don't think of themselves as bad. As for the man in Northharbour, if he IS a Darkfriend, do you think she'd just shrug off Moiraine's threat, or it would at least make her nervous enough to shut up for 5 minutes? If he is a darkfriend she doesn't need anyone making a connection to him for her to have to explain away. Also keep in mind this is a different Turning of the Wheel. The characters can be different. Of all the changes they made, making Liandrin more three-dimension with a phenomenal actress is not something I'm complaining about.