Game Of Thrones Season 8: Dany's Coffee Cup Mistake Accidentally Steals The Show
"I just can't break chains without my morning Starbucks!"
When the dust settled on the fourth episode of Game Of Thrones' final season, we should have been talking about several things. We should have been talking about that devastating ending. We should have been talking about Jon not petting Ghost, about Jaime's strange arc, about Varys' return to his flamboyant, conniving best. But instead, we're all talking about a coffee cup.
Somehow, in a show that costs an absolute fortune to make and whose lore is dependent on very precise writing and keeping track of massive sprawling family trees and histories, someone left a disposable coffee cup in plain view for an entire sequence.
As Dany and her survivors (who number way more than anyone would have suspected at the end of the last episode, but whatever) celebrate their victory in Winterfell and Dany chooses to make Gendry Lord of Storm's End, the offending cup sits on the table in front of her.
Clearly, Emilia Clarke needed the pep of caffeine to help her get through the energetic, tense scene that starts to unpick her character's mental state. Quite how nobody saw the cup sitting there for the entire scene - including Clarke sitting mere inches away from it - is just plain ridiculous. And for it to then somehow make it through the post-production edit process that would have added dragons and Ghost and the sea-set sequences without someone asking if they should CGI out the modern coffee cup is even more ludicrous.
Still, at least it gives us another meme to share around while the episode reactions fill up everyone's timeline. Starbucks will be delighted and if they don't use this as an opportunity to cheekily market themselves (I mean, Starkbucks writes itself), then their marketing department aren't up to much.