View original postThere's no denying that (or intent to try to), but I much prefer the way they did it. A whole lot of people wouldn't have identified the song right away (I didn't, I just assumed from Cat's reaction it could only be the Rains of Castamere), but that didn't matter as long as it was very clear Cat had figured out something was up, and the acting was really great and conveyed all that and more. It was also perfectly fine there was a little confusion about what tipped off Cat about the music in that scene. My comment was more in the order that I liked the fact they didn't guide the viewer by the hand and rather let them puzzled out what about that melody made Cat react as she did (beside the fact it was also badly played). It would have been totally different if everyone there was supposed to have noticed it too and only the TV audience was clueless.
That's probably true but I can't get over my thought experiment of replaying it with the song w/ lyrics on, that really was just timed perfectly and it really did empower the scene. Your mileage may vary but I think a transition from the orchestra playing to switching to it just being a scene soundtrack when they fired the crossbows would have served that purpose. Whichever, I found the scene a bit weak but I'd guess the non-readers didn't and I'm glad other readers didn't either. I'm happy to be in a minority on this one, I'm enjoying the show overall so I hope others do so it doesn't get cancelled 
View original postThe clues she was up to something were really to get the book fans talking and guessing about her until the end, which worked. But storywise making her Tywin's spy simply would have propelled her to "major villain" status and thus stolen Roose's thunder at a bad time (it's Roose who keeps going and needed more spotlight). Robb's wife made too huge a traitor.
Well that could have been worked around with having her injured but clearly not fatally so and having her mutter about Lannister promises and her kid ruling the north to Bolton and him making some grim remark, maybe even the 'regards' line and killing her, that would have escalated him to big bad.
View original postFor the rest I suspect they intend to use Lady Stoneheart more often than in the books (show behind the scenes events à la Theon not to lose the character) and they neither wanted to submit the actress to four hours of make-up with prosthetics every day of filming (the throat they can choose to show or not show when they wish), nor did they wanted to foot that bill till the end of the series. She can hide her face when she appears and shouldn't be recognized by other characters.
That's probably a good guess, her, Theon, and maybe even Rickon/Osha
