On 9/12/2019 at 11:01 AM, Elessar said:

 

Personally I think Geofram Bornhald is mentioned as a 'bad guy' in the article because the Whitecloaks on the whole are considered villains (despicable ones at that) by many fans of the books and he is (initially) their leader. So even if he does seem the least fanatic among them and is a grandfatherly kind of figure (though a hard one) as is mentioned above, he is a symbol of what they stand for (a kind of hateful extreme Inquisition against all they consider Darkfriends) and therefore could be depicted as one of the 'bad guys' in the tv-show. We who have read the books know, of course, that there are others among that lot (f.ex. the extremely zealous Jaret Byar) who are far worse.

I always wondered how they do the outfits of the Whitecloaks.  I always pictured the KKK and am curious as to how they pull it off.

On 9/10/2019 at 9:59 AM, solarz said:

Why would they expand the role of minor characters when there are already more characters than any normal TV show can handle?

They will likely combine the many smaller characters into expanded roles for the major characters.  You're right that there are about 10 thousand characters but 99.9 percent are throwaways.  The above definitely are not and can carry plot points of the others.

Thom and Loial have to be in it.  I wonder if Loial will be purely CGI.