Almost every film and show has a 'snafu' like this, its literally unavoidable
I didn't mind the water bottle so much but what really ruined it for me was the 20-second shot showing the hundreds of empty Smirnoff vodka bottles left all around Castle Black. That kinda broke the moment for me.
I'm convinced half the reason why this is happening is cause the actors have sorta gave up. They aren't even bothering to point this shit out cause even they know its a sinking ship.
Literally.
Look at all the recent interviews. They gave up, and i would too. They're professionals though, they gave it their all with the shitty, shitty material they were given.
Still dosen't beat the time the Night King left his pickup in the background
Starbucks and a Water Bottle in the same season though? How many episodes in is it so far? I don't watch the show myself but this sounds a bit silly now.
show is done, 6 episodes. 4th and 6th episodes of this season
If you're talking about the one in season 7 then that might be from a behind the scenes kind of stuff. People thought the same with Jamie's actor holding a coffee cup at one point.
When you're doing shots and reshots, things are going to move around while the actors adjust themselves or go on break, it becomes hard to track. Sometimes the editor will also not notice it or just not care and accidentally use the wrong shot before sending it out to the next guy.
This idea that these mistakes are "Completely avoidable" is just ignorant. Yes it's avoidable, but only to a degree. Humans are very clumsy and accident prone so its extremely easy for an object to sneak into the final product.
It's such a minor thing that you're not going to care about or notice while you're watching, and if it really does throw you off that much, you weren't immersed in the show to begin with. Stop focusing on shit that is entirely inconsequential.
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This is literally like 0.001% of film mistakes that make it into film. I haven't even looked at the laundry list of continuity errors which happen in virtually every film.
Guess what too, many of these mistakes happen in films that are regarded as some of the best films out there. Even with how big of a control freak Kubrick was he made mistakes.
To be honest I actually did notice the Helicopter shadow in The Shining and that kid in Back to the Future, but I see your point, it's just when you hear about two different things happening in the same season, it seems like they're dropping the ball somewhere along the line for whatever reason.
Probably doesn't help that this Season 8 is apparently terrible.
considering how they're apparently rushing it I'm surprised they didn't do the ultimate sin... camera-man-in-shot
yeah I think it's less about mistakes happening, which do, but when it's been multiple times in one season on top of the fact the writing wasn't good and the whole season was rushed.
Yeah mistakes happen in filmmaking and that's a given. But the water bottle and the starbucks coffee thing is in still shots. Shots that actually go on for awhile and everyone, including the actors on set would've pointed that out almost immediately. Especially more telling that Game of Thrones has, or used to take a lot of effort with tiny details n shit.
Either by some divine reason it slipped past everyone's radar, or that the actors themselves couldn't care to point it out due the writing going to crap, or they did it deliberately to show how much D&D no longer care about the show.
What's frustrating, is that almost every actor and actress on this show has poured their soul out to all these characters and this setting. the fact D&D rushed it to "Get it done" is like a bitchslap to the face. Especially Emilia Clarke cause she suffered from a stroke due to the stress of playing that character.
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It's from this (9:25)
That shot is also seen from behind Jon Snow.
I just don't understand how we've gone seven seasons without a slip up and now two happen in the last season
I could probably be more forgiving if they hadn't taken an extra year to make this final season, and it's the only one I can recall that had these issues.
s1-4 was skiing on ice normally, s5-6 gets a bit shaky, s7 the ice is starting to break, s8. A fucking hockey puck comes out of nowhere and knocks you the fuck out, cause the ice was never a hockey arena in the first place.
It's always hilarious to me that people think they would've noticed something like this. One person notices a mistake online, and suddenly everyone thinks they can spot every tiny detail on a large set after filming for who knows how many hours.
Especially considering, judging by the placement of the bottle and Sam's leg, the actor was likely hiding it so he could have it on hand between shots.
"I'll just keep my water here while we rehearse the shot."
"That's a print! Moving on!"
"Wait what"
I mean reciprocally, season 8 is terrible, so people might be more on the lookout for these things, and journalists are perhaps more likely to report on it.
The slip ups were already happening since the 5th season. However each season had its moments and wasn't nearly as bad as this season has been.
I remember during the photoshops scene in the spy who shagged me there was a guy on one of those automated camera stands that can move away and he looks over offscreen and it moves with him out of frame. Only reason I know it was actually a goof and not part of the photo shoot set was cuz the dvd extras draw attention to it as one
Not just did it take longer to do, it was only six episodes long. It's a shame that D&D stopped caring about Game of Thrones, they could have done it perfectly if they wanted.
Without a slip up you heard about.
Every season, every single one, has had numerous slip ups like this.
GoT season 4 and 5 each had their own Starbucks moment IIRC.
It's the fact that the media blew this up, not that they made mistakes, that is the real story here.
Everyone, go work as a PA on a film set for a day, 1) You'll get a few hundred bucks if you're working on a union show and 2) You'll see how much work a TV show is to make.
I don't think that this is a big deal, but the spectacular nosedive in quality between season 1-4 and 5-8 is.
Yeah, what moments are they? People keep saying this but I never see examples. I can think of a few examples off the top of my head - floppy swords, modern jeans, some weapons get swapped from scene to scene, but nothing has ever come close to the starbucks-cup-in-center-frame slip up from a few episodes ago. The water bottle is whatever. That really is hard to see.
But 'season 4 and 5 having their own Starbucks moment?' I don't know what you're talking about there.
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