Uh, Did You Catch That Starbucks Coffee Cup on Game of Thrones This Week?

Vulture ^ | May 6, 2019 | Devon Ivie

[EdnaMode]

Are the White Walkers cloud macchiato folks? Do the Dothraki prefer green tea frappuccinos with extra whip? (Just kidding! The Dothraki are all dead.) Can Dany’s dragons even consume Pike Place caffeinated blends? Vulture is asking the very important, very relevant questions to start our morning, as this week’s Game of Thrones episode confirmed the presence of America’s favorite (minus New England) coffee chain, Starbucks, in a scene. It’s not even that hard to miss, really: If you fast-forward to 17:39 to where Dany, Jon, Tormund, and their merry band of pals are hangin’ out, a Starbucks coffee cup is clearly visible on a table. Yes, this season took two years to make in a strive for perfection.

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To add a further layer of hilarity, the show’s creators, D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, were also in the scene. Because they can!

[EdnaMode]

Product placement!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I was too busy fast-forwarding through boring and outright embarrassing scenes to catch it.

[Reno89519]

Never watch or watched the program. Zero interest.

[COBOL2Java]

What’s “Game of Thrones”?

[mplc51]

No, But I do pick up used coffee grounds 3 time a week at Starbucks for my garden.

[pepsi_junkie]

I've started making a list in my head of pointless characters that nobody cares about or serve no further purpose that they can kill next week so they can keep the "shocking" deaths going. I'm thinking Podrick the squire's in trouble. Probably that Greyworm unsullied dude too.

Jamie, Tyrion, Brienne, Jon, Danaerys, Arya, Sansa, Sam, etc are all, of course, perfectly safe at all times.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The last season was written by a committee. They paid George before he finished the last book. He was too busy buying McMansions to finish it himself. it

[Red Badger]

This rates just below the Royal Baby thread in interest.................

[dfwgator]

I've started making a list in my head of pointless characters that nobody cares about or serve no further purpose that they can kill next week so they can keep the "shocking" deaths going.

Are they the ones wearing the red shirts?

[BenLurkin]

“All blond characters are evil,
and all the brunettes are good people.
The one blond character that you like
is actually a brunette in real life.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nopc6wY35J0

[sparklite2]

I’d like to get that cup. It must be,
what, fifteen hundred years old by now?

[sparklite2]

cute

[Spruce]

More laziness. Last season and this season are completely phoned-in.

[Red Badger]

At least..................

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Never watch or watched the program. Zero interest.

Ooohh...edgy!

[BenLurkin]

[George Rand]

Yup. Fast forwarded through all the boring crap. The 3rd episode, with the battles, took me 25 minutes to finish.

[pepsi_junkie]

They may as well be. Here's how bad the "shocking" deaths are. SPOILERS AHEAD

In most of the recaps from the "everyone is at risk!" battle where only a couple of B list characters actually killed and nobody at all was wounded they all forgot about one of the "shocking" deaths, Melisandra who served no purpose and nobody cared about and thus her shocking death is actually pretty much just forgotten. Just like the other three people who died (well, I liked Jorah but his story was over, he was just filler at this point).

[rjsimmon]

I don’t see the problem. Tormund brought it. You wanna tell him he was wrong???

[pepsi_junkie]

You know what, I did notice it but since the writing has gotten so formulaic over the past two seasons I’m just not that invested in this show anymore. I saw it and noticed it and yet it didn’t even occur to me that it didn’t belong because it feels like they’re mostly just going through the motions now.