- Warning: Spoilers ahead for HBO’s “Game of Thrones” season eight finale.
- The “Game of Thrones” series finale, “The Iron Throne,” aired on Sunday.
- Fans on Twitter and Reddit spotted not one but two modern-day plastic water bottles in a scene on the show.
- Earlier on the season, a coffee cup was accidentally included in a feast scene and went viral.
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“Game of Thrones” season eight was divisive and full of shocking twists, but perhaps one of the biggest controversies was a lone coffee cup left on a table on episode four, “The Last of the Starks.”
Fans spotted another modern-day item on the finale, “The Iron Throne,” which aired Sunday. Plastic water bottles could be seen at the feet of Ser Davos (played by Liam Cunningham) and Samwell Tarly (John Bradley) during one of the most important scenes of the episode.
Around the 49-minute mark, just as Tyrion Lannister is about to make a case for Bran Stark to be made king, a panning shot of the lords and ladies of Westeros shows a plastic water bottle hiding behind the legs of Ser Davos.
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Do you spot it?
Here's another shot of a different plastic water bottle hiding in plain sight at Samwell's feet around the 46-minute mark.
And here it is in motion, as captured by INSIDER streaming via HBO Now on Sunday evening.
In a season criticized by some fans as lacking attention to detail, these modern-day additions were emblematic to some of a rushed series finale. Fans on Twitter saw the water bottle and immediately shared photos and videos of it.
a water bottle in King’s Landing!! #got #gameofthrones pic.twitter.com/mwGQlsLwnh
— Beth (@bethisloco) May 20, 2019
LMAOOO I CAN'T BREATHE THEY DID IT AGAIN 💀💀 First Starbucks now a water bottle this show is a joke #GameOfThrones #GameOfThronesFinale #TheFinalEpisode pic.twitter.com/9YaFF8Pnm6
— ℝίτα⚡ (@JonxDanyy) May 20, 2019
Let's all clap for the sponsors of this season
The plastic water bottle and the Starbucks cup#SamwellTarly#GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/8MVr7oe6a8— hadi Abozeid (@dark_lord0003) May 20, 2019
The water bottles are another example of a modern-day beverage receptacle appearing on screen this season.
The coffee cup on episode four made waves on the internet, becoming a viral sensation. Sophie Turner (who plays Sansa Stark) jokingly blamed Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen), who denied it. The HBO craft-services cup was mistaken for a Starbucks cup and earned an estimated $2 billion in free publicity for Starbucks.
HBO made light of the cup, joking that the latte was a mistake and that "Daenerys had ordered an herbal tea." It also quickly edited the cup out of the scene.
As of Monday morning, the water bottles on episode six still appeared in the shot.
HBO didn't immediately respond to INSIDER's request for comment on the water bottles.
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