There was a year or so between the pilot’s initial production shoot and the later reshoots, so you can imagine a few things changed between now and then.
Game Of Thrones showrunners Dan Weiss and David Benioff can at least defend to EW that the scene, while embarrassing, was necessary.
It appears as though they had something different than “murders” in mind when asked about the “worst.”
You’d think they wouldn’t need to explicitly explain that haircuts are responsible for a character’s hair being gone, but there you go.