Because the young Karstark was like "What did your Lord tell you?"
without looking surprised or scared tells me that he was privy to Ramsay's intentions before it happened. But the show is starting to make a bad habit out of eschewing set-up scenes and leaving them for off-screen speculation so that the culmination of an event can be "shocking." What made the shocking moments so great in past seasons were the setups. If they want to show that the Karstark is on board with Ramsay, they should have a set-up scene of him and Ramsay politicking an episode before. They don't have to flat have Ramsay say "I'm going to kill Roose," but they could show them eating dinner or feeding the dogs or whatever, having a conversation about the line of succession, or their places in their family hierarchy, or heck even reminding the audience who the hell the Karstarks are, and having Ramsay symphatize with the Young Karstarks plight. Show the audience that they at least have a rapport, or that Karstark has his back. That way when Ramsay kills Roose and the Karstark is like 
instead of 
, you can hark back to the set-up. Same thing with Elaria killing Doran, while the guards just look on. They should have had a few scenes of her at the very least talking to the guards back in season 5 or whatever, or show scenes of the populace shytting on Doran and openly saying how much they like the Sand Snakes.
That's one of the annoying things about the writing the past few seasons. There has always been kinslaying in the show, but it was always set up more eloquently, like Littlefinger convincing Lysa to kill Jon Arryn, and often involved a middle man, like Cersei having Lancel get Robert drunk on the hunting trip. Now it's just nikkas stabbing Lords in broad daylight or leading fat chicks to be devoured by dogs in broad daylight.
It's why I said before this season began that this would be an amazing season of highpoints, but the plotting would probably still be inconsistent or mediocre, at least compared to the stuff in earlier seasons. These aren't plot holes because they don't contradict anything, but they are information gaps, where we are forced to speculate why something happened the way it did instead of having a scene to point to.
without looking surprised or scared tells me that he was privy to Ramsay's intentions before it happened. But the show is starting to make a bad habit out of eschewing set-up scenes and leaving them for off-screen speculation so that the culmination of an event can be "shocking." What made the shocking moments so great in past seasons were the setups. If they want to show that the Karstark is on board with Ramsay, they should have a set-up scene of him and Ramsay politicking an episode before. They don't have to flat have Ramsay say "I'm going to kill Roose," but they could show them eating dinner or feeding the dogs or whatever, having a conversation about the line of succession, or their places in their family hierarchy, or heck even reminding the audience who the hell the Karstarks are, and having Ramsay symphatize with the Young Karstarks plight. Show the audience that they at least have a rapport, or that Karstark has his back. That way when Ramsay kills Roose and the Karstark is like instead of , you can hark back to the set-up. Same thing with Elaria killing Doran, while the guards just look on. They should have had a few scenes of her at the very least talking to the guards back in season 5 or whatever, or show scenes of the populace shytting on Doran and openly saying how much they like the Sand Snakes.That's one of the annoying things about the writing the past few seasons. There has always been kinslaying in the show, but it was always set up more eloquently, like Littlefinger convincing Lysa to kill Jon Arryn, and often involved a middle man, like Cersei having Lancel get Robert drunk on the hunting trip. Now it's just nikkas stabbing Lords in broad daylight or leading fat chicks to be devoured by dogs in broad daylight.
It's why I said before this season began that this would be an amazing season of highpoints, but the plotting would probably still be inconsistent or mediocre, at least compared to the stuff in earlier seasons. These aren't plot holes because they don't contradict anything, but they are information gaps, where we are forced to speculate why something happened the way it did instead of having a scene to point to.
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. I liked him better old, but I think they just wanted to show off Max Von Sydow
For Roose??
Ramsey has literally no redeeming qualities what so ever 