spoilers . . . . . . . . . . Somebody please explain the rains of castamere song at the end of the last tv episode and what it represents. I'm past the Edmure/Roslin marraige catastrophe in book 3, and could see that as what they're hinting towards, but didn't think they'd jump into the middle of book 3 with the finale of season 2.
it's a way for them to introduce the song and it's meaning before the red wedding, so that when the wedding scene happens the same type of "oh shit" moment can happen for the astute viewer that happened in the book before all the shit breaks lose. If you had paid attention in the book you would have known something was up when the band starts playing the song right before the shit goes down.
Of course you knew something was happening in the book. But I thought people were talking about them setting up the song for the next episode.
Rains of Castamere was a song written about a young Lord Tywin extinguishing the House Reynes after they rebelled against him. A few years later, another house threatened to rise against him and Tywin simply sent a singer to their castle to sing the song and the lord backed down. it's become an anthem for House Lannister. during the Red Wedding, the band played the song while they murdered all the Starks. that's what they're foreshadowing.
essentially they just establishin the song as the Lannister theme music, so when it starts playing at the wedding people will be all like "WTF why is that song playing...oh shit now they killin errbody"
Now it makes sense. I thought i read people were talking about it used in the next episode, and as I read that part of the book I was wondering how the fuck they're going to jump that far ahead in one episode.
I'm 95% sure (and 100% hopeful) that this starts playing and then we go to a slow motion montage of the massacre. I may cry. Don't judge me, you don't know what I've been through in my life.
Spoiler question #2- was the man that Bran/Hodor/Reeds came across in the mountain caves Jaqen H'gar?
Didn't he flee just like Arya and the rest? It's possible that he's on the run. Plus, it wasn't as if his goal was to help Bran, it just seemed like their paths crossed.
Jaqen H'ghar is not a real person, it's an assumed identity for the faceless man. Said faceless man has promises to keep, and miles to go before he sleeps. A man has better things to do than go north to help a halfwit, a cripple, and the frogeaters go find a deformed bird. It would, theoretically, be possible that another faceless man was the one you're speaking of, but not the one who was JH.