Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) was spotted walking around the Season 8 set with a coffee and cigarette, however it appears that he takes his to-go coffee without a lid. Is it me or did Sansa plant the Starbucks cup in front of Dany as part of an elaborate plan to take her down? /O4tvoiyDxdīut before we go blaming Sansa for sabotage and treason in Winterfell, it’s typical on large sets for coffee to be made in large batches with packages of to-got cups at the ready, so everyone’s walks around set with identical recyclable cups that are placed next to the vat. It almost make you wonder if Starbucks owner Howard Schultz paid for the publicity, and nor should that theory be ruled out.
So, the fact that a Starbucks to-go cup made it all the way into the final version of such a highly regarded series with an endless budget - it is quite astounding. But with the technologically advanced, almost magical tricks that can be done in post-production nowadays, even human characters can be cut and pasted in and out scenes. The biggest question on viewers’ mind, however, who left their Starbucks in the shot in the first place?īefore going through each suspect, it should be noted that personal objects getting left in a shot is not uncommon in the filming industry. While this episode brought a surprising amount of drama following the North’s epic defeat of the Night King and his army, such as Brienne and Jaime‘s love scene, Tormund crying, Arya saying no to Gendry’s proposal, and (Spoiler alert!) the beheading of Missandei, and Rhaegel‘s death, all anyone could talk about was this Starbucks cup, and how the hell it got into the Seven Kingdoms.
During episode 4 of Season 8 at minute 17:39 – eagle-eyed viewers spotted a modern Starbucks cup in Winterfell, just casually sitting on the dinner table right next to Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). However, it appears not much of that insanely huge budget went toward a continuity editor. The coffee cup lands like a thud because, for 71 episodes, Game of Thrones has basically been a still, picturesque pond.It took HBO and Game of Thrones‘ show creators two years to produce, shoot and edit the final season of the hit series, and each episode reportedly cost an incredible $15 million to make. A non-action sequence like burning the dead is still the confluence of engineers who can put actors next to controlled flames, and VFX artists who can replicate the tangible set-pieces without missing a shred of detail. As detailed in a breakdown of episode 4, the women and men who work on the show’s sets, props, costumes, and special effects dedicated weeks and weeks to fine-tuning every visual in the series. If there’s any take away from CoffeeCupgate, it’s that Richter is right: Thrones is immaculate. “Things can get forgotten on set,” Richter wrote to Variety after the incident, adding that the conversation was “so blown out of proportion it has not happened with Thrones so far.” Hauke Richter, an art director on Thrones season 8, had a pretty succinct explanation to address every reaction. “Our on-set prop people and decorators are so on it, a thousand percent,” Thrones producer Bernie Caulfield told NPR’s All of It, adding, “Westeros was the first place to have Starbucks. “The latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake,” HBO said in a statement. With all the well-intentioned ribbing, those involved with Thrones spent the 24-hour meme cycle apologizing, standing up for the craftspeople on the show, and poking fun at themselves.