In the first episode of the first season of the HBO TV Series Game of Thrones which is adapted from the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire also called Game of Thrones, the first scene featuring Cersei and Jamie Lannister is an original scene not form the Book with them in King's Landing before leaving for the visit to Winterfell.
What I say next is going Spoil some plot points from both the show and books.
I first watched this show not even knowing it was based on a book already over a decade old with 4 sequels. I also didn't know we were supposed to be thinking of this as a Who Done It, it seemed not even up to debate that Cerise and Jamie killed John Arryn and sent the assassin after Brann. If it was like a Detective Show at all it was the Columbo kind. Ned's investigation is framed as about finding out why not if.
The reveal in later books that no they didn't do either of those things actually to me reads like a twist not answering a question. It's like when people explain why Abrams is wrong and the original Star Wars Trilogy was never a "Mystery Box", the fate of Luke's father was never presented as a mystery so when we're told it wasn't what we were first told it didn't answer anything we were already asking, it simply changed our perspective.
So imagine my surprise when I'm watching multiple YouTube Videos from ASOIAF book fans talking about what the show changed even early on and they claim this extra Cersei and Jamie scene partly spoils the central mystery by revealing right away that they didn't kill John Arryn. This is clearly a result of them interpreting the scene through the filter of what they already know. To me that scene still only makes sense if they did kill him, making it a plot hole when season 4 reveals the truth. They aren't wondering who did it, they are wondering if he told anyone what he knew with the clear subtext that they killed him over what he knew.
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