They had such good chemistry, Mark and Sean did a great job of making you believe these two had history together and were genuine old friends. God damn what a great show this started as with Robert, Ned, Robb, Joffrey etc
Only the Targaryens raised like kings cause they are royallineage. Robert is probably raised as a knight and future lord. So that's why he's like that.
I love how Sandor Clegane went from risking his head for a King's command to "fuck the king" when Joeffery was king. Really goes on to show how much Robert commanded respect.
Robert was a formidable warrior, who won the throne through fighting a war, winning battle after battle. Hound if anyone respects a man like that. Joeffrey was a spoiled little shit who threw tantrums if he didn’t get what he wanted and expected everyone else to fight his battles for him
It's honestly crazy how out of all the kings we've seen so far on the show, the whoring alcoholic philanderer with zero interest in ruling still turned out to be the best at his job simply because he mostly delegated running his kingdom to his council, and even apparently the debt can be attributed to not him being too wasteful, but some book cooking.
I'm rereading the series, and I'm certain that Sandor Clegane actually liked King Robert. Neither of them give a shit about politics, they like hunting and fighting and killing and drinking and fucking. I feel like they may have actually gotten on well together if Robert was never the king. The Hound certainly has more in common with Robert Baratheon than does Lord Stark.
It started off well, just like Robert and Cersei's relationship. Then, after six years of marriage, the writers leaned into the shoe's ear and whispered 'Star Wars...'
@@Drimil3 It's their relationship that started off well, not their marriage. Cersei talks about how happy she was to see him as her groom, but he didn't live up to the hype.
I genuinely believe that Mark Addy was perfect in this role. He's a funny and jolly guy who just oozes charisma and cheer when he's with his close friends, but when he's not he turns into a brooding, angry, drunk of a man who'll lash out at anyone nearby.
Sean Bean and Mark Addy's chemistry was fantastic. They only had one season together but they did a great job and really felt like a genuine friendship.
@@theanimeboy9953 It makes a difference that they're both from Yorkshire (Mark from York, Sean from Sheffield); if you know anything about Yorkshire, you know the chemistry comes easy.
The only true reply! Cersei was covering it all up trying to protect 'Mommy's little boy", Robert gave it 1 glance and LEVELED Goffrey with the floor..Like only a REAL Man can... Tywin Lannister would have said a similar thing!
@@thegreenreaper6660 "A worthy prince, instead of whining to his mother, would treat his wounds himself and know better than to cry when faced with actual danger. Children play, they get hurt. Why must we make this a big deal?" Twyin would say that or something along the lines of that.
And he popped her good. Think about it, season one, she wasn't so bad of a character, Robert rapped her on the jaw when she overstepped. Seasons 2-8, she just gets worse and worse, and nobody is there to bitch slap her. Coincidence, I think not!
@@danheinz13 Yep. I don't think I ever saw King Robert lay his hand across that little bastard's face. That's where they went wrong with him. Tyrion's pimpslap game wasn't on par with Robert's.
I love how Sandor Clegane went from risking his head for a King's command to "fuck the king" when Joeffery was king. Really goes on to show how much Robert commanded respect.
I love how Cersi thinks she's on Robert's level. He may be a drunk but he lead the rebellion and knows each of the kingdoms in and out. Cersi was born with a silver spoon and knows casterly rock that's it
She even had the gall to look down on him. But I suppose her and her brother put horns on him and usurped the birthright of his brother and heir, so they did get one over on him.
Adam Amador he was just a badass that loved fighting, that had to stop fighting in order to be a politician, which bored him heavily. Imagine being so bored all day that you have to entertain yourself by taking the piss of your squire.
No? I remember seeing a clip where he raised his hand to Cersei. That was pretty cruel to me. All because he didn't like something she said, smh. And I hear he was less than gentle with her in bed.
The thing is Lancel had stood up more to Robert might have respected him more. A lot of why the king bullied Lancel was because he was sick to the bone of lying scheming, flattering arse lickers like LittleFinger.
@@therealdutchvanderlinde3124 "LOOK AT THIS IDIOT! Cant even carve a seven pointed star properly!! One ball no brains and now religious to boot! Get him out of here and re open littlefingers brothel!" Something like that I imagine
Robert's greatest strength wasn't that he was a beast with a hammer, but that he was GREAT at making friends and a natural leader. I love that even 20 years later, they make him the most charismatic character on the show. You can't hate the guy.
Robert was NOT a natural leader, except for maybe on the battlefield. Both the show and the books repeatedly stress how he was a bad and ineffective ruler.
@@Polo-wk7zl Robert left other people to do his work for him. A wise leader delegates when he knows there's better people to do it. And he absolutely was a leader, he made friends everywhere he went. Jaime and Barristan were both Kingsguard for the Targaryens and they happily joined Robert's new Kingsguard. Robert was pardoning and making friends with everyone that had fought against him.
@@VDA19 Yes, a wise leader accepts council from those that know more than him. A bad leader ignores that council and does whatever he wants, which Robert did. Repeatedly. Remember how much debt he left the crown in? Barristan joined Robert’s Kingsguard for duty. And I hope you’re not seriously claiming that Jaime liked Robert, we both know that’s not true. Robert said it himself. “I've got Seven Kingdoms to rule! One king, Seven Kingdoms! Do you think honor keeps them in line? Do you think it's honor that's keeping the peace? It's fear! Fear and blood!”
@@michaelhenry3234 yeah, the combined armies of the north, the vale and the storm lands was strong enough to make the lords in charge believe they could take on the might of the crown with lannisters backing them, other wise they wouldn't have called their banners. Marrying the lannisters after the war meant 5 of the 7 kingdoms were now allied through either blood or close personal relationships. Though the lannister army is undeniably strong we have strong evidence to suggest the northern army is more than a match. Robert was smart enough to know he wouldn't be very good with administrative duties and put Jon Arryn in charge, and part of being a good leader is knowing how to delegate. When it came to playing the game robert knew how to make allies, taking a page from aegon the conquerors book and had the foresight to predict an eventual targaryen invasion. He may have been a whore mongering drunk but he kept the peace and was loved by the small people, all in all i think he was a good king who gets a bad rept due to little fingers schemes
That's the sad part of his story. In the books he keep an exiled Summer Island prince as guest in the Red Keep. Cersei think the guy's a parasite but believe Robert keep him around coz he like toying with the idea of going off on a military campaign one more time.
@@finnjones2028 Actually it does. Sure I would've prefered Jon on the throne from a narrative Standpoint, but then we'd just be back to the old ways with a Targaryen inheriting the crown because of who his bloodline. Bran made sense because due to him being the Raven, there was nobody more knowledgeable and wise, who couldn't easily be betrayed, because he'd know, AND he has no ambition to abuse his power. The problem will be to find a suitable replacement once Bran dies. Or he will just have to train his own successor as the next 3eyed Raven
That genuine laughter shared between Cersei and Robert was one of the best moments ever. It was so unexpected and genuine, probably one of the only times Cersei let the mask drop.
Id robert had not been so heart broken maybe he could have seduces cersei. And they have a functional marriage like cat and ned. Bob is to honest and cersei to proud.
@@electricangel4488 Show Cersei? Maybe. Book Cersei? Absolutely no. She was always a narcisistic bitch that fucked his brother only as a reflection of such narcisism (because she saw him as her "male version", and she always washed to be born male). Same goes for her kids
Robert returning to his glory days and training himself back up to fight the dothraki invaders and traitor targaryen loyalists n opportunists. Now that would've made for a better story n ending than we got with season 7 n 8.
Wrong. If Robert killed Dany back then, a lot more people would have died against the Night King than Dany ever killed. With or without Viserion, the NK would have gotten past the wall at the time he arrived. All it took was one giant to lift the gates to the Wall’s tunnels during the Wildling attack, the NK had several. Not to mention when Sam was on the same side of the wall as the White Walkers in season 3 episode 10, he told Bran that there were steps carved into the south side of the wall that were presumably still accessible to them on the side they were currently on, or else there would have been no point in telling Bran in the first place. You think they were screwed against the NK in Winterfell? Imagine how much worse it would have been if Drogon and Rhaegal hadn’t taken out such a large portion of the wights. We saw how screwed Arya was with just the wights that got past the dragons. There would have been no Arya to kill the NK if the dragons were never there at all. They were getting overpowered with the larger living army in Winterfell, and that was before the NK even used his dragon against them. The wouldn’t have stood a chance with the smaller living forces they had at the Wall when the NK arrived. Point is, if this fat drunk of a King had gotten his way, the entire human race would have been screwed because of him.
hawksasuke97 I never said he should have killed her, without her there is no Fire in the story. He was right that she was a serious threat, being that every other Targaryen was nuts due to inbreeding, (yes she was a product of incest also). He was also right about her having a solid army that was behind her way more then the army of kings landing was behind the throne.
Ryuko Tokyo No, actually. As proven in the finale of s7, the entire wall doesn’t need to be destroyed in order for the dead to get past the wall, all they need is an opening. All it took was one giant to lift the tunnel gates during the Wildling attack, and the NK had several. There was evidently no magic preventing the dead from getting near the wall or else they wouldn’t have been able to sit a wrapped up wight on the wall in the first place. If the larger living army in Winterfell were still getting overpowered even without the NK using his dragon, how the hell would they have done any better with a smaller living army when the dead showed up at the end of season 7? Common sense. In conclusion, even without Dany’s dragon, the NK would have gotten past the wall. As for Dany destroying King’s Landing, Dany was never the kind of person to go around killing children until after listening to advice of naively pacifistic idiots who kept trying to shove their Mary Sue nonsense down her throat, costing her everything from her dragons to her sanity. Hell, Dany was the kind of person who prioritized the safety of her people over the power her dragons gave her, which is why she locked them away at the very idea of them harming a child. The only “idiots” are Jon and Tyrion, who’s heads are so stuck up in La La Land that they are utterly incapable of seeing the world for what it is and people for what they are. Dany knee what the world was and responded accordingly. She wasn’t a child murdering psycho until she got screwed over by simpletons
Ryuko Tokyo You’re definitely forgetting the fact that at the end of s7 they would have been fighting undead people with practically no dragon glass, wise guy. Lol this is definitely not as simple as the Spartans. Dany being “inconsistent” indicating an inability to rule is highly debatable. Regardless, I just as easily say that being an over trusting, naive little idiot who doesn’t learn their lesson about the way the world works even after death is also a pretty big sign of being a bad ruler. Would’ve lasted two seconds on the throne before Jon got his head chopped off like Ned Stark because he trusted the wrong person for the billionth time
He was pretty much a figure head monarch tho. The hand of the king did more to rule than robert, who just got drunk and whored. More credit should go to Jon Arryn and Ned
@@MrMisanthrope84 Royal families and noble families ARE originally gangster families who were racketeering whole countries and fighting against other gangster families. Then they invented lots of bullshit to cover their true nature.
@@nat-tb7de that bad poosy was alright? Thst dorne plot point was a shit show. I really almost tie season 8 and 5 for worse whenever i rank the seasons.
@@iateyursandwiches How can you almost tie those seasons? Sure Season 5 had major problems like the entire Dorne Plotline and Stannis, but it was better paced with 10 episodes. Plus it actually was the best season to execute how threatening the white walkers were. Hardhome was way better than the Battle of Winterfell. Season 8 was just something else.
I just realized that of all the characters in this saga, RB was the only one who had hearty laughs, enjoyed his time, had moments of happiness. Everyone else spent their lives plotting, killing, dying & other muck. I've never seen anyone truly laugh & be happy as RB, even though it was short lived. RIP
I guess the stark kids and also tommen and myrcella from what little we see before they became jaded because of the circumstances happening around them.
@@jordirodri1362 Robert would love most fighters but other lords would find hanging out with them to be dishonest like Samwell Tarly's father, Lord Randyll Tarly.
@@sirocco2810 Cause it was, first seasons had tons of it. Remember Neds bodyguard talk with Jaime? He said he almost lost an eye during a fight and when he fought Jaime he died exactly like that.
I honestly believe that Prime Robert was the most dangerous fighter in the entire Asoiaf lore. He was basically a jacked half giant, swinging a gigantic warhammer that Ned couldn’t even lift like it was a wooden stick. Try parrying a blow from a warhammer. You can’t! And a single hit will shatter every bone in your body. No armor could protect you from that. While Arthur Dayne, Barristan, Jaime Lannister and Aemon the Dragonknight are the most skilled swordsman in the lore, I think they would all have lost to Robert. Gods he was strong then…
@abdulkarimelnaas7595Swords are fantastic weapons. Fast, precise & beautiful. A hammer is just more efficient against armor but very skilled & fast swordsman can beat a force like Robert. One wrong move, one opening & its over.
@@elpiedra1596He is right. Agility & Speed can beat brute slow force very easily. A giant hammer doesn’t do much if your opponent is faster & can exploit your openings
The words "Caved in his breastplate." is terrifying, and had he did in fact done it twice. If any steel breastplate wroth a lord's coin crumples like a tin shed, it was hit HARD...really hard.
@@BaphomaneRobert wasn't just big and strong, he was still one of the most skilled fighters in Westeros. He still received good quality training as befitting a lord paramount. FFS he beat goddamn Rhaegar, one of the best fighters on the continent.
I love how in the books, Arya is described as being Lyanna in miniature, and it really is telling that Robert didn't see that in her. As he himself later said, all he can remember is that he loved her, but he can't even remember what she looked like.
So that’s probably an indication of him realizing she did look like someone he knew but could not places it if you drank as much as him you might not remember shit either .
Thats not true arya in the book is described as being long of faced shes not attractive basically while lyanna is described as beautiful in the book arya is constantly mocked for being unattractive in winterfell shes called horseface and when on the kings road traveling with the black back to winter fell everyone calls her lumpy head
I think she is only like Lyanna on her temper. Since, in the books, Lyanna is described as a very beautyfull woman with eyes as blue as winter roses, while Arya is described as having a horse-face and dark eyes.
@@manofhonor1685 Barristan is still alive in the books and is currently ruling in Meereen after Daenerys fled with Drogon and was capture by the Dothraki, just like in S5E9 and forward. Pretty much replacing him with Tyrion. Them killing Barristan was only for shock value and the actor even fought with D&D to keep him, it ashamed to kill of the greatest swordsman in all of Westeros just died by a bunch angry rich dudes wearing masks.
0:28 can we just acknowledge how much of a sigma Robb is? He just shakes the king's hand and nods like Robert's just another guy, doesn't say a word. Doesn't look nervous to meet him, doesn't look happy, not proud, just treats Robert like another man and shakes his hand looking like a badass. Robb Stark; the King we deserved, but never got to enjoy.
@@todogenial119To be fair, in the books he didn't do it out of love, but out of honor, he deflowered the girl and found himself forced to marry her, to maintain his honor and especially hers.
@@Andy_252_ And this deflowered girl was absolute(In the series)piece of ass and KAVLA(That's a GREEK word for a very,very hot woman)! We can not blame him any of us!
To me it’s quality over quantity, Tywin said “Robert only attended 3 council meetings in 17 years” but it looks like he gets shit done and is right apparently 100%
He let the council decide because they were smarter. His only Problem was He threw Out too much Money Out of the window. But on the other hand that made the Common people Happy and they never Had to fear hunger
I honestly believe that Robert would’ve been a good King if he put himself to it. He was a natural born leader and had traits and skills to command. Throughout the 300 year Targeryan reign there were many rebellions but all failed. Robert was the only one to succeed. Also he was right about a lot of things that happened later in the show and about his own family/kids. That means something. But he never wanted to be King. He didn’t even start the war, and he only rebelled because he was in love with the Prince’s lover. It was only after the battle of the trident that the war was about over throwing the mad king. However all his traits left him when he left the battlefield. And unlike Jon snow who doesn’t want to be king either, Jon would still apply himself and try his best, instead of going to his best friend and ask him to do all the work and heavy lifting.
We need a prequel series showing us their primes, all the way up to the rebellion and him getting seated on the throne. The Starks and Baratheons have too much chemistry to not want to see more of them.
@@ThisNameWasTaken0 Oh he had plenty of children, basterds the lot of them but with how long he was on the throne and how much he screwed there's an army of his kids in the realm.
Bobby B's best moment was literally every moment he had a line in the show. An epic character masterfully performed. Season 8 could have literally just been Robert & Ned bantering, then getting in a heated argument, and then making up over and over...it still would have been better than what we actually got.
He didn't blow up the Sept of Baelor, just had it blown up in front of his face and not being able to do anything about it. That thing is going up whether he is there or not.
Y’know I find it weird Robert didn’t say more to Robb. The kids literally named after him, he’s grown into a very capable young man, and it’s clear Robert wants nothing more than for their houses to be joined. Robb is the heir of Winterfell and only a few years older than Myrcella. Yet even in the books I don’t remember them interacting beyond the first scene in this video. You could easily imagine the lot of them sitting down for a meal, Robert pulling Ned and Robb over, and telling the kid tales of their youth and their friendship and their battles. Perhaps even with Joffrey present, trying to force a friendship between the kids. But all he gets is ‘You must be Robb’.
Might be not implemented because of lack of time and it would not have had anything come from it. It would be nice and would make sense given what we know of the characters but because of the way they were gonna write the show implementing that would make it filler at best.
I think the original plan from D+D was to not give Robb much screen time because he's not a pov chapter in the books. But once they saw how well Richard Madden acted and how commanding his screen presence was they opened up his role and made it more important.
Robert's not really interested in either his or Ned's kids except as instruments to revive his friendship with Ned. Robert doesn't really give a shit about his own children, he pines for the days when he was young and free with Ned at his side. His children are just another reminder of his responsibilities and his hated marriage. So his neglect of Joffrey and the others extends to Ned's. He doesn't care about Robb because he only wants to talk to Ned without being reminded that they aren't boys anymore
Robb goes to the winterfell banquet with myrcela in the books. Basically imthe king's visit turned into a shitshow with the Bran tragedy. After that, Robb stays behind to rule the north so they don't really have time to interact
When you first saw Robert Baratheon you were like "Damn he is the worst guy to rule a kingdom" 8 seasons later WOW Robert was a wide margin the best ruler in the history of the Kingdoms
To be fair, it's a pretty low bar. Just "Don't be a bloodthirsty lunatic who slaughters dozens of people a day purely to have something to do for the afternoon" and you're already in the top 10 easy.
@@apugalypse_now Viserys had a good rule in terms of logistics. His biggest fuck up was creating the seed of the Dance of the Dragon and he could have done way more to prevent it but cut the guy some slack he couldn’t have known his bitch wife would betray his wishes before his body was cold.
M H S even cersei, bran the inactive and dany(for a short period of time) came after robert. And even people fighting for their claim like renly and stannis werent any better than him. Even if ned had ruled he wouldn’t have been a better ruler as he never did anything dishonourable. And dont forget that his predecessor was a madman. So robert truly was the best king.
M H S i agree with you except sometimes dishonourable and illegal things like killing dany needed to be done. If dany would’ve died early on then thousands wouldn’t have lost their lives later on because of her. Other than this ned would’ve been far better than him.
He was laughing because it was the truth. Their hateful marriage is what kept Tywin on Robert's side. And that kept everyone in line. Except that one time ...
tbh i dont even think robert would have been that mad if he had known cersei was sleeping around, its the fact that all his children are jamies, thats what woulda made him kill them all
They were laughing because of the irony that the only thing keeping everything together was their spiteful marriage. Like there marriage was a mess but it's what's keeping the kingdoms together at that point. It was a pretty good joke.
There's a scene in the books where The hound beats jaime in jousting tournament and Robert laughs like maniac, I wish they'd have put that scene in the show.
5:53 there's something so wholesome about this scene, like they're a couple who legitimately loved each other and are kinda laughing at the tragic fact that the marriage never worked out but they still kinda like each other as friends
I don't think they ever truly loved each other, not romantically. Cersei was betrothed to Rhaegar from a young age and knowing she couldn't have Jaime, wanted him. She married Robert and was happy to go along with it (she wanted to be queen and make her father happy), until Robert revealed he only wanted Lyanna, even though she was dead by this point. Robert meanwhile was so fixated on Lyanna, he was obsessed, but it was only the idea of her that he loved. He never wanted Cersei, but he stayed married to her because he needed Tywin Lannister's support more.
Keith Jefferson and when he saw how there was literally no resemblance to him, though i dont know if the book made him out to be as unlike him physically.
Joffrey resembled Cersei and that was it. He had the classic Lannister looks but didn't behave like Jaime at all. Marcella and Tommen also looked like Lannisters, so to Robert, that was further evidence that his own genes simply weren't passed on, at least as far as his looks were concerned. Had he paid more attention to them, he would have realized that Marcella was smart and Tommen was timid--but even then, nobody would have guessed that they were Jaime's kids.
@@neelabhkashyap7311 Yep, she is literally supergirl. She can teleport, and has sword skills that god couldn't compete with. This show used to be so great, goddamn it.
@Bilal Khalid I think we're well post that point. We reached the fucked up stage when two moronic little girls somehow killed one of the most powerful and intelligent men in Westeros, littlefinger. Fucking DnD expect us to believe Arya and Sansa could outwit Lord Baelish.
Man, the writing was so good back then. And I've also come to realize that the scene with Cersei and Robert is the only time Cersei genuinely laughs at something.
The writing was shit back then as it was in the last 2 seasons. Its not the writing that was good, its was the fact that back then they had great books to follow, when they finished the books and Martin still had 2 more books to write, all they had left was the shit writing of the screen writers and you can see how they fuck it up with the last 2 seasons. If Martin had finished all the books so the idiots can fallow them this could have been the best show in history. Shame !
@@gheorghenegreanu8409 I mean, I agree that D&D are trash and writing and all of that... But I think that scene wasn't in the book and it was show original (as some others), so they are trash and deserve the backlash they got, but they did some good stuff too, we can't just look past that.
This is great but I feel like its missing one of his best serious moments: "You want to know the horrible truth? I can't even remember what she looked like. I only know she was the one thing I ever wanted. Someone took her away from me, and seven kingdoms couldn't fill the hole she left behind" The way he spoke, the look in his eyes. Too real 💔
He's one of the things that was actually better than the book version. He hits all the important plot points of book Bobby B, but he's just a little more fun and the stuff they added makes him a little more likeable whereas the book version is just frustrating.
@@vynonyoutube1418 Not really, the books mention that Robert originally wanted Ned or Jon Arryn to be king when the rebellion ended (and it sounds like Robert is sort of hurt that his best friend left him in King's Landing). He did give Stannis Dragonstone which Stannis took as a slight but it is also the seat of the Crown Prince which solidifies Stannis as his heir in the event Robert has no children.
LagiNaLangAko23 they had a falling out over It but they did patch things up after Lyanna’s death and I think Ned left primarily because of the baby Lyanna had.
Intimidating one of the most powerful ladys of the realm is no small feat. Robert would have stomped any who would defy him in single combat and in wit. Yet we will never know. The gods are cruel in design; and may any who forget this isn't a sweet normal women. She is evil heartless and ruthless. Loving only her kids. I adore her as a character, but as a person I'd stab her in the back myself even if it meant death. Only Robert could be so largess that hitting a Lanister meant nothing. He truly was a king . . even if he was shit at the role.
I love how when you first watch the show, Robert seems like a bad king, a drunken fool unfit for the title, but after watching the whole show, he was right about almost everything, he had a wisdom to him, he knew how to rule, he might not have enjoyed it, but he knew his responsibilities, he knew not to indulge in violence. When I start the series over I always find myself loving Robert because he had years and years of peace under his reign, we all were taught to dislike him, only to be shown the real evil doers after his death. What a great show
I would have loved to have seen them go through the whole series. I think westeros would have looked very very different if they would have stayed alive
I knew knothing of the franchise. Just noticed one day Sean Bean plays in it and started watching. And of course, what needed to happen, happened. Just wasn't expecting it so soon.
When Lancel Lannister glared into the Wildfire he knew, there was no Breastplate stretcher.
Alex Schmidt omg! Loooool
Now that's funny. His last thought..
Lol.
Believe it or not, that is in fact a real thing.
Oh crap that is him
After the Battle of Winterfell
Robert gives intense look at the Night King:
"You let that little girl disarm you?!"
He'd have loved the night king... No scheming or backstabbing... Just a clear fight. God's I miss Bobby b
Bobby G would have put the smack down on the night king
@Friend Patine He'd have loved them because they beat the dothraki in an open field.
When Lancel gets shanked by a bunch of 7 year olds... Roberts ghost laughing.....
The Lukester ahahaaa funny man
The friendship between Robert and Ned was honestly beautifully portrayed. Ned was the only one who could tell Robert no and get away with it.
They had such good chemistry, Mark and Sean did a great job of making you believe these two had history together and were genuine old friends. God damn what a great show this started as with Robert, Ned, Robb, Joffrey etc
wasn't portrayed, they've been friends for long time in real life, since their studies....
AntiBaboonDevice calling the actor mark is fine BUT YOU WILL CALL SEAN BY HIS REAL NAME MR BEAN!!!
Barristan Selmy was almost as close to this as Ned. In the books Ned and Barristan convinced Robert that he was fat
@The high ground 😆
I love how Robbert is literally the king of an entire continent, but he still jokes around and laughs when called fat by Ned.
It’s the little things right
Well ONLY with Ned. If anyone else called him fat he would've had that guy skinned alive
@@zaer-ezart Nah he ain't no Bolton.
Well just because you're the king of a continent doesn't mean you're not human.
Only the Targaryens raised like kings cause they are royallineage. Robert is probably raised as a knight and future lord. So that's why he's like that.
"Damn it Ned, stand up"
Such a bro...
Wi1dTiger loved it when he said that
Shows real friendship
Robert is my nigga
@@rohanbhuckory1297 "I'll have your head on a pike... ill put it there myself"
Yep true BFFs
@@tang9538 Dude, they later have a huge bro moment when they recoincile...
Robert: oh 😱 Show us your muscles
Bran:💪
Robert:Damn, you'll be a cripple
Rajesh jeez mate u almost made me "piss myself" with that joke haha
The Curious Donkey 😂😂
😂
Ugh..... Stop copying and make your own meme?
TrubberDox shut up, I didn't even know it was commented before
Robert: "Only a fool would meet the Dothraki in an open field".
Night King: "Hold my icicle"
😭
Not because they are strong there, but because they respawn
"Only a fool would kill a crying Samwell Tarly"
Only a fool would meet A Girl in a closed Godswood.
Only a fool would acknowledge season 8 as anything more than a complete disgrace.
I love how Sandor Clegane went from risking his head for a King's command to "fuck the king" when Joeffery was king. Really goes on to show how much Robert commanded respect.
Back when the show was wholesome
Robert was a formidable warrior, who won the throne through fighting a war, winning battle after battle. Hound if anyone respects a man like that. Joeffrey was a spoiled little shit who threw tantrums if he didn’t get what he wanted and expected everyone else to fight his battles for him
It's honestly crazy how out of all the kings we've seen so far on the show, the whoring alcoholic philanderer with zero interest in ruling still turned out to be the best at his job simply because he mostly delegated running his kingdom to his council, and even apparently the debt can be attributed to not him being too wasteful, but some book cooking.
I bet Robert and Sandor got along. Just two giant men who liked to fight.
I'm rereading the series, and I'm certain that Sandor Clegane actually liked King Robert. Neither of them give a shit about politics, they like hunting and fighting and killing and drinking and fucking. I feel like they may have actually gotten on well together if Robert was never the king. The Hound certainly has more in common with Robert Baratheon than does Lord Stark.
"Sometimes I don't know what holds it all together."
"Good writing."
*Cries*
Good one XD
It started off well, just like Robert and Cersei's relationship.
Then, after six years of marriage, the writers leaned into the shoe's ear and whispered 'Star Wars...'
@@rtozier2011 Robert and Cersei never started off well, the night of their marriage Robert called Cersei "Lyanna" while deep inside her
@@Drimil3 It's their relationship that started off well, not their marriage. Cersei talks about how happy she was to see him as her groom, but he didn't live up to the hype.
Lmfaoo this comment thread 😭
_Stannis Baratheon :"Bend the knee".
_Joffery Baratheon :"Kneel before your king".
_Robert Baratheon :"Bow before your king, Bow ya shits".
Joffery Lannister*
@@InstinctOUDNA not legally
@@InstinctOUDNA His legal father was Robert Baratheon. So he was a Baratheon.
@@InstinctOUDNA Joffery Waters. He wasn't even legitimate Lannister.
@@nishitchauhan2603 then that'd be Joffrey rocks.... I guess... Since he was a bastard of a Lannister
"BOW BEFORE YOUR KING, BOW YA SHITS"
Man i miss Bobby B
The greatest king of all of Westeros
GODS I WAS STRONG THEN...
Mate, we All miss Robert Baratheon. He was legit one of the best characters in the entire damned eight seasons.
I'll always bow to the one true king of Westeros.
bobby brown?
"Stop this *madness* in the name of your King."
A flash of the authority the great Robert Baratheon once commanded.
He used his commander voice!
@@luigicavallo270 He put on his commander face!
Battlefield voice!!
@@luigicavallo270 even the mountain can't stop a volley of arrows
Joffrey would have made them fight to the death with only one survivor. As he demanded
God the writing was strong back then
Gods*
Now everyone is expert in writing.
lucius0malfoy you don’t have to be an expert to notice the shitty writing.
@@lucius0malfoy I'm not an expert in urban planning but I know Hiroshima didn't look so good after the bomb
@@TheRaviotar Hhahahahahha ... you are right !!!
Gods I was strong then.
Not stronger than me.
Bobby B!
Screw Bran Stark and his Republic of the Six Kingdoms, I'll still bend my knee to you milord!
The series is over. And your friend Ned is long gone.
you got lucky to die before season 8
I genuinely believe that Mark Addy was perfect in this role. He's a funny and jolly guy who just oozes charisma and cheer when he's with his close friends, but when he's not he turns into a brooding, angry, drunk of a man who'll lash out at anyone nearby.
Nathan Johnson Reminds me of Dave Mustaine
Nathan Johnson And that conversation with Cersei. It displayed his vulnerability and sadness perfectly. Brilliantly written and acted.
Grumpy Cat I give you +1 for that. Dave in his prime was definitely like that.
@@grumpycat6665 Nah, dave was born with 2 dicks, one between the thighs and one in his head
I want to be Roberts friend. Its hard not to like him
Sean Bean and Mark Addy's chemistry was fantastic. They only had one season together but they did a great job and really felt like a genuine friendship.
They're friends in real life and they occasionally hang out with each other
One season together? They both had one season lmao
@@jhonjhonson5787 shit neither of them had a full season lol
@@theanimeboy9953 It makes a difference that they're both from Yorkshire (Mark from York, Sean from Sheffield); if you know anything about Yorkshire, you know the chemistry comes easy.
"You let that little girl disarm you?"
Damn I forgot how satisfying that part was.
The only true reply! Cersei was covering it all up trying to protect 'Mommy's little boy", Robert gave it 1 glance and LEVELED Goffrey with the floor..Like only a REAL Man can...
Tywin Lannister would have said a similar thing!
The Green Reaper *Joffrey
Yeah, and Joffrey always was ready to talk shit back to anyone who insulted him, except for his father, he couldn't say shit.
@@thegreenreaper6660
"A worthy prince, instead of whining to his mother, would treat his wounds himself and know better than to cry when faced with actual danger. Children play, they get hurt. Why must we make this a big deal?"
Twyin would say that or something along the lines of that.
robert to the night king
"you let that little girl stab you?"
This man is an utter legend
Not because he took the iron throne, but because he made Cersei laugh.
And he popped her good. Think about it, season one, she wasn't so bad of a character, Robert rapped her on the jaw when she overstepped. Seasons 2-8, she just gets worse and worse, and nobody is there to bitch slap her. Coincidence, I think not!
@@22steve5150 REMEMBER JOFREY?
@@danheinz13 Yep. I don't think I ever saw King Robert lay his hand across that little bastard's face. That's where they went wrong with him. Tyrion's pimpslap game wasn't on par with Robert's.
@@22steve5150 nope bobby B belted him good in the books, the lil shit was scared as fuck infront of him so never did anything wrong in eyesight.
@@22steve5150 After Joffrey cut open a cat to look at her unborn children Robert almost beat Joffrey to death in the books.
I love that Robert never even TRIES hiding how much he despises all the Lannisters. 😄
He's the fckin king of Westeros
Quite the contrary actually, he actually SHOWS every chance he gets that he hates them, if there's no chance, he makes one lol
Especially lancel Lannister 🤣
@@brucebatmanwayne8514 Gods, Lancel, what a stupid name.
I love how Sandor Clegane went from risking his head for a King's command to "fuck the king" when Joeffery was king. Really goes on to show how much Robert commanded respect.
I love how Cersi thinks she's on Robert's level. He may be a drunk but he lead the rebellion and knows each of the kingdoms in and out. Cersi was born with a silver spoon and knows casterly rock that's it
She even had the gall to look down on him. But I suppose her and her brother put horns on him and usurped the birthright of his brother and heir, so they did get one over on him.
@@holypaladin4657 and they get to be shamed, harrasses and deal with problems that Robert should've do.
She's reaching for his level on the scale.
To be fair Jon Arryn and Ned Stark were with him. Robert’s greatest skill was finding men who knew what they were doing
without tywin cersei would just be a whore
There's more dialogue in this video than the entirety of season 8
She is my queen
Mike Whittemore I love you you are my queen
They were trying to build up here.. S8 they trying to wrap up shit and running to Disney/Starwars money
Fewer sullen, meaningful glances, though!
HomelessSmurf I dun wuntit
He was the one thing we ever wanted. Someone took him away from us and 7 seasons couldn’t fill that hole he left behind
Wheeeeez in robert Baratheon
And what a big whole He left behind
Flipside 256 I see what you did there.
As big as hole as Lyanna
Yeah, I would cry at this.
“Robert was neither mad nor cruel.”
No Lord Varys, he wasn’t. He simply was a badass character.
best character in GoT
Adam Amador he was just a badass that loved fighting, that had to stop fighting in order to be a politician, which bored him heavily.
Imagine being so bored all day that you have to entertain yourself by taking the piss of your squire.
Adam Amador turned his cheek to watch a couple innocent Targ kids get murdered though...
@@matiidesign "one ball and no brains" 💀💀💀
Captain Average “can’t even put a man’s armour on him properly”
1:05 "Damn it Ned, stand up"
That's so genuine and sincere.
'I'll put your head on a spike. I put it there myself, you damned fool.'
“Robert was a drunk, but he wasn’t cruel”
He was quite callous though. But not actively cruel.
No? I remember seeing a clip where he raised his hand to Cersei. That was pretty cruel to me. All because he didn't like something she said, smh. And I hear he was less than gentle with her in bed.
joanie keyser Cersie was a monster. That slap that Robert gave her was well deserved.
@@joaniekeyser4036
He also acknowledged that he shouldn’t have slapped her, saying it was “unkingly”.
@@joaniekeyser4036 Think of the time I mean anything short of holding a branding iron to her face would be considered barley a love tap.
Oh it's funny, is it? No? You don't like the hand's joke?
This guy was way too brutal
Loses either way :( Laughs because he called the King fat or stays silent because he doesn't like the Right Hand's joke...
Yur torturing the pur boi
Go find the breastplate stretcher, now!
The thing is Lancel had stood up more to Robert might have respected him more. A lot of why the king bullied Lancel was because he was sick to the bone of lying scheming, flattering arse lickers like LittleFinger.
I love hanging with dudes that never allow you let your guard down like that 😂
2:24
"The armor's too small, M'lord. It won't fit"
King Baratheon: "YO MAMMA"
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Phat ass
🤣🤣🤣
I would love to see roberts reaction to religious lancel in season 6
@@therealdutchvanderlinde3124 "LOOK AT THIS IDIOT! Cant even carve a seven pointed star properly!! One ball no brains and now religious to boot! Get him out of here and re open littlefingers brothel!" Something like that I imagine
Robert's greatest strength wasn't that he was a beast with a hammer, but that he was GREAT at making friends and a natural leader. I love that even 20 years later, they make him the most charismatic character on the show. You can't hate the guy.
Robert was NOT a natural leader, except for maybe on the battlefield. Both the show and the books repeatedly stress how he was a bad and ineffective ruler.
@@Polo-wk7zl Robert left other people to do his work for him. A wise leader delegates when he knows there's better people to do it.
And he absolutely was a leader, he made friends everywhere he went. Jaime and Barristan were both Kingsguard for the Targaryens and they happily joined Robert's new Kingsguard. Robert was pardoning and making friends with everyone that had fought against him.
@@VDA19 Yes, a wise leader accepts council from those that know more than him. A bad leader ignores that council and does whatever he wants, which Robert did. Repeatedly. Remember how much debt he left the crown in?
Barristan joined Robert’s Kingsguard for duty. And I hope you’re not seriously claiming that Jaime liked Robert, we both know that’s not true. Robert said it himself.
“I've got Seven Kingdoms to rule! One king, Seven Kingdoms! Do you think honor keeps them in line? Do you think it's honor that's keeping the peace? It's fear! Fear and blood!”
And eight seasons later he was still the best king shown
@@LordWyatt Tommen was arguably better
It's crazy how memorable he and Ned is despite both of them dying in the very first season.
That's what brilliant actors,great directing and great writing do
Compared to a guy like Euron Greyjoy, who was around for two full seasons, and yet is the most forgettable character ever.
@@HOTD108_ TV euron might be but I feel if it was a faithful adaptation of book euron, you'd probably wrong.
They were so memorable because times were so much simpler and better then. We ended up wishing season 1 never ended lol.
its called not overstaying your welcome. when that is done right we are left with good impressions
Adulthood is when you realize that Robert was right all along.
Ned Stark has the blood of every person in King's Landing on his hands - all because "honor". Robert was the best King in the whole show.
@@michaelhenry3234 he was a terrible king, what kept the peace was war exhaustion and tywin with the lannister army
@@steelmonkeyy Not really. Robert's political connections kept the peace. (Which includes Tywin, but also Ned and Jon Arryn)
He was the exact opposite of current world leaders. The appearance of a bumbling fool and a joker but was actually super wise and clever.
@@michaelhenry3234 yeah, the combined armies of the north, the vale and the storm lands was strong enough to make the lords in charge believe they could take on the might of the crown with lannisters backing them, other wise they wouldn't have called their banners. Marrying the lannisters after the war meant 5 of the 7 kingdoms were now allied through either blood or close personal relationships. Though the lannister army is undeniably strong we have strong evidence to suggest the northern army is more than a match. Robert was smart enough to know he wouldn't be very good with administrative duties and put Jon Arryn in charge, and part of being a good leader is knowing how to delegate. When it came to playing the game robert knew how to make allies, taking a page from aegon the conquerors book and had the foresight to predict an eventual targaryen invasion. He may have been a whore mongering drunk but he kept the peace and was loved by the small people, all in all i think he was a good king who gets a bad rept due to little fingers schemes
"HONOR?! I'VE GOT SEVEN KINGDOMS TO RULE!!!! ONE KING, SEVEN KINGDOMS."
the delivery is legendary, 11/10.
And as you implied with your last sentence, he was right, ruthless as it may have been.
And ironically enough, Joffrey's idea of a centralised goverment (though fueled by his ego) would've solved that.
A cruel king solve one problem by creating two
When the problems overwhelmed you,you fall and crash
HONOR ?!
@@TougeWarrior93 A king has to be cruel at times. A good king is cruel when he has to be and a bad king is cruel because he can be.
2:12 you can really see how Robert misses just being mates with Ned, and that his joke to run away is a fantasy he's held onto for a long time
That's the sad part of his story. In the books he keep an exiled Summer Island prince as guest in the Red Keep. Cersei think the guy's a parasite but believe Robert keep him around coz he like toying with the idea of going off on a military campaign one more time.
Robert: Show us your muscles
Bran:💪
Robert: Damn, you'll have my job one day.
hahaha that one was the best so far
Judgeharm 😂😂😂😂😂 truth
it made absolutely no sense for Bran to be king, the series got butchered
Shame he skipped leg day
@@finnjones2028 Actually it does. Sure I would've prefered Jon on the throne from a narrative Standpoint, but then we'd just be back to the old ways with a Targaryen inheriting the crown because of who his bloodline. Bran made sense because due to him being the Raven, there was nobody more knowledgeable and wise, who couldn't easily be betrayed, because he'd know, AND he has no ambition to abuse his power. The problem will be to find a suitable replacement once Bran dies. Or he will just have to train his own successor as the next 3eyed Raven
That genuine laughter shared between Cersei and Robert was one of the best moments ever. It was so unexpected and genuine, probably one of the only times Cersei let the mask drop.
I mean, she even impressed herself by how witty her reply was, that she couldn't help but have a good laugh
Id robert had not been so heart broken maybe he could have seduces cersei. And they have a functional marriage like cat and ned.
Bob is to honest and cersei to proud.
@@electricangel4488 Show Cersei? Maybe. Book Cersei? Absolutely no. She was always a narcisistic bitch that fucked his brother only as a reflection of such narcisism (because she saw him as her "male version", and she always washed to be born male). Same goes for her kids
She always knows EXACTLY what to say to get her way. Robert knows it's bullshit; that's why he laughs with her.
@@electricangel4488 Cersei even confessed to Ned that she would’ve left Jaime for Robert if their relationship had worked.
3:51 start of season 8
3:58 mid season 8
4:07 end of season 8
Accurate 👌🏾👌🏾 D&D’s heads on spikes
Underrated comments 🤣🤣🤣
"Give me something for the pain and let me die."
would be another good one for the ending of season 8
As annoying as these kinds of comments are getting, this one at least gets points for creativity
Underrated comment
Imagine how great the show would have been if it would have been Robert and ned defending the iron throne against all comers for 10 seasons
Tbh that would have been better than anything of season 8
Robert returning to his glory days and training himself back up to fight the dothraki invaders and traitor targaryen loyalists n opportunists. Now that would've made for a better story n ending than we got with season 7 n 8.
@@dnw009 and in his free time he would train Gendry. Imagine the Stag boiz bashing heads together.
They should just do a series of Roberts rebellion like they are hotd
@@tim6454 there is no book about that unfortunately but i agree it would be really cool.
He and Ned were taken from us too soon.
Agreed! TRUE!
My boy robert would have crushed everyone who pissed him off if he was alive
And Khal Drogo 😥
Madgerns YES! 😭
Alien X GODS HE WAS STRONG THEN
"Who wrote season 8? Some half-wit with a stutter?"
Perfect description of Beniof and Weiss (for season 8, of course)
@@cristinademartini1284 "missun-day"
Two inbred half wits with a stutter actually.
Mu-h qwee-en-h
A person with one ball and no brains xd
Compared to all the Kings/Queens we've seen on the Iron throne, Robert is definitely the most decent and normal one.
Very true
He’s up there for sure. The only other Kng/Queen that could be considered decent was Margaery
If you consider show only, then yeah. But books wise, there are plenty better than him, especially Jaeharys.
Daeron and Jaehaerys want a word with you
He may be incompetent but he wasn’t a bad man.
Robert: "I'll have your head on a spike!!!"
Joffrey: "What a great idea, Dad!"
3:51 me waiting for season 8
3:58 me after watching few episodes of season 8
Clegane throwing down his sword in anger is me after witnessing the shitty writing.
That was perfect😂
Lmao
Someone stole this from r/freefolk :/
😂😂😂😂
Robert was right about the targaryen girl the whole time
Wrong. If Robert killed Dany back then, a lot more people would have died against the Night King than Dany ever killed. With or without Viserion, the NK would have gotten past the wall at the time he arrived. All it took was one giant to lift the gates to the Wall’s tunnels during the Wildling attack, the NK had several. Not to mention when Sam was on the same side of the wall as the White Walkers in season 3 episode 10, he told Bran that there were steps carved into the south side of the wall that were presumably still accessible to them on the side they were currently on, or else there would have been no point in telling Bran in the first place. You think they were screwed against the NK in Winterfell? Imagine how much worse it would have been if Drogon and Rhaegal hadn’t taken out such a large portion of the wights. We saw how screwed Arya was with just the wights that got past the dragons. There would have been no Arya to kill the NK if the dragons were never there at all. They were getting overpowered with the larger living army in Winterfell, and that was before the NK even used his dragon against them. The wouldn’t have stood a chance with the smaller living forces they had at the Wall when the NK arrived.
Point is, if this fat drunk of a King had gotten his way, the entire human race would have been screwed because of him.
hawksasuke97 I never said he should have killed her, without her there is no Fire in the story. He was right that she was a serious threat, being that every other Targaryen was nuts due to inbreeding, (yes she was a product of incest also). He was also right about her having a solid army that was behind her way more then the army of kings landing was behind the throne.
James Hurtado Ah, well he said a lot of things about her. I just assumed you meant the thing he talked most about: killing her.
Ryuko Tokyo No, actually. As proven in the finale of s7, the entire wall doesn’t need to be destroyed in order for the dead to get past the wall, all they need is an opening. All it took was one giant to lift the tunnel gates during the Wildling attack, and the NK had several. There was evidently no magic preventing the dead from getting near the wall or else they wouldn’t have been able to sit a wrapped up wight on the wall in the first place. If the larger living army in Winterfell were still getting overpowered even without the NK using his dragon, how the hell would they have done any better with a smaller living army when the dead showed up at the end of season 7? Common sense. In conclusion, even without Dany’s dragon, the NK would have gotten past the wall.
As for Dany destroying King’s Landing, Dany was never the kind of person to go around killing children until after listening to advice of naively pacifistic idiots who kept trying to shove their Mary Sue nonsense down her throat, costing her everything from her dragons to her sanity. Hell, Dany was the kind of person who prioritized the safety of her people over the power her dragons gave her, which is why she locked them away at the very idea of them harming a child. The only “idiots” are Jon and Tyrion, who’s heads are so stuck up in La La Land that they are utterly incapable of seeing the world for what it is and people for what they are. Dany knee what the world was and responded accordingly. She wasn’t a child murdering psycho until she got screwed over by simpletons
Ryuko Tokyo You’re definitely forgetting the fact that at the end of s7 they would have been fighting undead people with practically no dragon glass, wise guy. Lol this is definitely not as simple as the Spartans. Dany being “inconsistent” indicating an inability to rule is highly debatable. Regardless, I just as easily say that being an over trusting, naive little idiot who doesn’t learn their lesson about the way the world works even after death is also a pretty big sign of being a bad ruler. Would’ve lasted two seconds on the throne before Jon got his head chopped off like Ned Stark because he trusted the wrong person for the billionth time
Even 7 minutes of Robert Baratheon's best moments is better than the whole 8th season of GOT
Damn right.
#BringRobertBackOnTheThrone
Sadly true
so sad and yet .. so true ..
100%
You're so hip..
Cersei and Robert laughing at Cersei’s joke was genuinely funny, and terribly sad.
The beauty of a joke that hits a little too close to home
The funny part is that King Robert is likely the realistic version of the better kings of REAL life.
He was pretty much a figure head monarch tho. The hand of the king did more to rule than robert, who just got drunk and whored. More credit should go to Jon Arryn and Ned
@@DylanJo123 i mean sort of. The thing about Robert is that everyone were scared shitless of him
Jenkins A good King appoints good advisors to manage the realm.
Robert battered people to death with a fucking hammer. That guy was straight up gangster. That's why people didn't talk shit to him.
@@MrMisanthrope84 Royal families and noble families ARE originally gangster families who were racketeering whole countries and fighting against other gangster families. Then they invented lots of bullshit to cover their true nature.
Season 1-4: Good writing
Season 5-8: "Baratheon has Theon's name in it which foreshadowed his death"
5 and 6 were alright mate, 7 and 8
crusader_x0 ikr, people shit on 5 and 6 when they’re both pretty solid
@@nat-tb7de that bad poosy was alright? Thst dorne plot point was a shit show. I really almost tie season 8 and 5 for worse whenever i rank the seasons.
@@khqlifq But, in season 5-6 began to appear problems with logic and writing.
@@iateyursandwiches How can you almost tie those seasons? Sure Season 5 had major problems like the entire Dorne Plotline and Stannis, but it was better paced with 10 episodes. Plus it actually was the best season to execute how threatening the white walkers were. Hardhome was way better than the Battle of Winterfell. Season 8 was just something else.
"I'LL HAVE YOUR HEAD ON A SPIKE!"
Oh the sound of true friendship.
Let’s be real if you haven’t threatened to kill your friend are you probably aren’t friends
He just foreshadowed what Joffrey did to Ned
"AND I'LL PUT IT THERE MYSELF!"
Yup. BFFs
@acooknamed_Rishi Of course not. The worst thing he would do would probably be to actualy name Jaime as The Hand of The King. That would leave a scar.
"Only real comrades can speak to each other like that." khrushchev, possibly.
I just realized that of all the characters in this saga, RB was the only one who had hearty laughs, enjoyed his time, had moments of happiness. Everyone else spent their lives plotting, killing, dying & other muck. I've never seen anyone truly laugh & be happy as RB, even though it was short lived. RIP
I guess the stark kids and also tommen and myrcella from what little we see before they became jaded because of the circumstances happening around them.
It wasn't short lived he reigned for like 17 years.
He would have got on well with Tormund, lol
He would have got along well with everyone who wasn't a Lannister
He wouldn't have. South hates wildlings
The Mighty Dab or targeryan
@@rngrtt3689 I feel like it would be the north that hates the wildings, the south doesn't suffer their raids so they wouldn't care
@@jordirodri1362 Robert would love most fighters but other lords would find hanging out with them to be dishonest like Samwell Tarly's father, Lord Randyll Tarly.
Every Stark that Robert touched when he first arrived in Winterfell was murdered...
fvUCK-
Shit
Don't say it, D&D will say it was foreshadowing.
@@sirocco2810 Cause it was, first seasons had tons of it. Remember Neds bodyguard talk with Jaime? He said he almost lost an eye during a fight and when he fought Jaime he died exactly like that.
What about Jon Snow?
Man I just want a road trip series with ned and Robert just talking about the good ol days.
Sang Man no I think it’s about the first Long Night
Sang Man well I heard atleast one of those is going to be set during the time of the first Long Night
@@lonestarwolfentertainment7184 10 episodes of darkness, then?
Negan could probably still see better than the Battle Of Winterfell
Conversations about Bessi and her tits.
I honestly believe that Prime Robert was the most dangerous fighter in the entire Asoiaf lore. He was basically a jacked half giant, swinging a gigantic warhammer that Ned couldn’t even lift like it was a wooden stick. Try parrying a blow from a warhammer. You can’t! And a single hit will shatter every bone in your body. No armor could protect you from that. While Arthur Dayne, Barristan, Jaime Lannister and Aemon the Dragonknight are the most skilled swordsman in the lore, I think they would all have lost to Robert. Gods he was strong then…
@abdulkarimelnaas7595 😂😂😂😂
@abdulkarimelnaas7595Swords are fantastic weapons. Fast, precise & beautiful. A hammer is just more efficient against armor but very skilled & fast swordsman can beat a force like Robert. One wrong move, one opening & its over.
@@elpiedra1596He is right. Agility & Speed can beat brute slow force very easily. A giant hammer doesn’t do much if your opponent is faster & can exploit your openings
The words "Caved in his breastplate." is terrifying, and had he did in fact done it twice. If any steel breastplate wroth a lord's coin crumples like a tin shed, it was hit HARD...really hard.
@@BaphomaneRobert wasn't just big and strong, he was still one of the most skilled fighters in Westeros. He still received good quality training as befitting a lord paramount. FFS he beat goddamn Rhaegar, one of the best fighters on the continent.
I love how in the books, Arya is described as being Lyanna in miniature, and it really is telling that Robert didn't see that in her. As he himself later said, all he can remember is that he loved her, but he can't even remember what she looked like.
I also like how she is the only 1 he asks wut her name is
So that’s probably an indication of him realizing she did look like someone he knew but could not places it if you drank as much as him you might not remember shit either .
Thats not true arya in the book is described as being long of faced shes not attractive basically while lyanna is described as beautiful in the book arya is constantly mocked for being unattractive in winterfell shes called horseface and when on the kings road traveling with the black back to winter fell everyone calls her lumpy head
@Sachman Pannu im just quoting the book if u got a problem tell George RR Martin not me lmao
I think she is only like Lyanna on her temper. Since, in the books, Lyanna is described as a very beautyfull woman with eyes as blue as winter roses, while Arya is described as having a horse-face and dark eyes.
Robert died way too quick. Such a great character, great acting.
I know right? All the best actors got killed off too fast. Ned, robert, even ol barristan
One of the underlying themes of ASOIAF is the young replacing the old. Robert, Ned, Tywin, Jeor Mormont, etc
Robert and Ned stole the show for everyone else, bc they were so damn charismatic ^^ its good that they were gone, so others could shine too
@@julianarnold21 Shine - like polishing a turd...
@@manofhonor1685 Barristan is still alive in the books and is currently ruling in Meereen after Daenerys fled with Drogon and was capture by the Dothraki, just like in S5E9 and forward. Pretty much replacing him with Tyrion. Them killing Barristan was only for shock value and the actor even fought with D&D to keep him, it ashamed to kill of the greatest swordsman in all of Westeros just died by a bunch angry rich dudes wearing masks.
Even Cersei was funny when Robert was around.
He was the only one who could shut her up cause he didnt fear any targaryen
@@akramebrahim1446 What? What has Cersei got to do with Targaryens?
@@asimhussain8716 Stronk Ser Ponce Supreme, the only character that Stannis truely fears!!!!
@@shadow_realm47 Stannis the Hedgehog, first of his name; rightful king of the Seven Emeralds and the First Men
0:28 can we just acknowledge how much of a sigma Robb is? He just shakes the king's hand and nods like Robert's just another guy, doesn't say a word. Doesn't look nervous to meet him, doesn't look happy, not proud, just treats Robert like another man and shakes his hand looking like a badass.
Robb Stark; the King we deserved, but never got to enjoy.
He lost his better judgement when he decided love was more important
@@todogenial119 love is the death of duty
@@todogenial119To be fair, in the books he didn't do it out of love, but out of honor, he deflowered the girl and found himself forced to marry her, to maintain his honor and especially hers.
@@Andy_252_ And this deflowered girl was absolute(In the series)piece of ass and KAVLA(That's a GREEK word for a very,very hot woman)!
We can not blame him any of us!
@@Andy_252_that is much better. Now I’m angry because they fucked him up in the show.
To me it’s quality over quantity, Tywin said “Robert only attended 3 council meetings in 17 years” but it looks like he gets shit done and is right apparently 100%
He let the council decide because they were smarter. His only Problem was He threw Out too much Money Out of the window. But on the other hand that made the Common people Happy and they never Had to fear hunger
@@Ninjakiller_ Yeah, he bankrupted the realm for internal conflict i think
People of Kings Landing were happiest under Robert's rule. Now they are burning from Wildfire and Dragonfire.
if only he had a different wife and a strong accountant
things would be great
Shyam Kapadia *gIrL PoWeR yAAAAy* pfft
You mean under Jon Arryn's rule...
@@Yinon776 Jon Arryn ruled as Hand thanks to Robert. He knew he wouldn't be a good ruler, and was responsible enough to let Jon Arryn do the job.
They were happy under Tywin as well.
And debt free!
If he did find the "breast plate stretcher" perhaps he would survive the wild boar
@Bilal Khalid woosh
You could say boar found his breast ribs strecher.
I thought Lancel poisoned him?
Damn Lancel. What a stupid name.
@Bilal Khalid how comes nobody realized how his left eye grow twice its sized at 5:09
I honestly believe that Robert would’ve been a good King if he put himself to it. He was a natural born leader and had traits and skills to command. Throughout the 300 year Targeryan reign there were many rebellions but all failed. Robert was the only one to succeed. Also he was right about a lot of things that happened later in the show and about his own family/kids. That means something. But he never wanted to be King. He didn’t even start the war, and he only rebelled because he was in love with the Prince’s lover. It was only after the battle of the trident that the war was about over throwing the mad king. However all his traits left him when he left the battlefield. And unlike Jon snow who doesn’t want to be king either, Jon would still apply himself and try his best, instead of going to his best friend and ask him to do all the work and heavy lifting.
I think the Mad King killing the elder Starks kicked it off too, Robert wouldn't have gotten far if Aerys wasn't so terrible
He turned all to rust, like an old sword hung over the fireplace
Its a shame he was mostly too drunk to show his godliness
If only lyanna is there he definitely will be great king.
The whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooore is pregnant
THE BOAR IS A WHORE, NED!
FORTY THOUSAND DOTHRAKIS IN AN OPEN FIELD NED! NEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDD!
F Artz YOUR MOTHER WAS A DUMB BOAAAAAAR. GODS I WAS STRONG THEN
@@plartoota4584 I'VE BEEN SITTING HERE FOR DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYS
Drewski 92 watch that scene at 0.25 speed 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I like how honorable Sandor can be. He bowed and knelt before Robert he commanded him too.
Robert was probably one of the few people in Westeros The Hound could actually respect. He was a warrior who became King through might and war.
@@MrMisanthrope84 Robert is a generation older than Sandor so he was probably an idol of Sandor's growing up
No probably about it, Robert was a legend in the books, they don't really go into detail in the series but he was a feared warrior
Every Robert scene was a gem.
Robert and Cersei laughing together is honestly the most memorable scene in the entire series for me. I don't even know why.
Say what you will about Robert Baratheon, but he held Westeros together until his death. Also, his laugh is super contagious.
Yea he's the kind of jolly uncle that tells shit jokes but his laughing brings out the laugh in everyone around him
We need a prequel series showing us their primes, all the way up to the rebellion and him getting seated on the throne. The Starks and Baratheons have too much chemistry to not want to see more of them.
To be fair, he did live in ignorance not knowing his son wasn’t his.
@@ThisNameWasTaken0 Oh he had plenty of children, basterds the lot of them but with how long he was on the throne and how much he screwed there's an army of his kids in the realm.
It was Jon Arryn that held Westeros together
"It's a neat little trick you do: you move your lips, and your father's voice comes out."
Phoenix Rises one of my favorite quotes in game of thrones
Words*
Phoenix Rises Who says this?
@@doesnotcompute3174 Robert to Cersei
"The WhoOOooooOre is pregnant".
That will be my new excuse when i need a reason for anything.
Mom- Why didn’t you clean your room????
“THE WHOOOOOOOORE IS PREGNANT”
Why haven’t you paid your bills?
“The WhOooOoOoOooOrE is pregnant”
Cops: why’d you kill the hooker
Me: the whoooore is pregnant
ROLF
My friend: "Hey man, I messed up. My gf and I didn't use contraception, sadly she's now pregnant"
Me: "the wHoOoOrE is pReGnaNt!!"
Bobby B's best moment was literally every moment he had a line in the show. An epic character masterfully performed.
Season 8 could have literally just been Robert & Ned bantering, then getting in a heated argument, and then making up over and over...it still would have been better than what we actually got.
5:37
The Lannisters and their smug, satisfied faces
Jaime: indeed has a smug and satisfied face
The writers have
have smug satisfied faces after ruining the last two seasons.
very straight to the point as well.
Robert: Oh show your muscles
Bran: 💪
Robert: You'll be a Three Eyed Raven
"You'll be a cripple"
@@LightgreenLP you savage 🤣
@@LightgreenLP 🤣🤣🤣
Ouch.
"I can never be lord of anything"
Breastplate-stretcher boy gets ripped, mutilates his forehead, and inadvertently blows up the Sept of Baelor. What character development!
Oh right, and bangs Cersei a few times along the way.
He didn't blow up the Sept of Baelor, just had it blown up in front of his face and not being able to do anything about it. That thing is going up whether he is there or not.
God's what stupid character development.
@@KAD10895 not that ridiculous, how many bully victims go on to become school shooters and psychopaths
@WaltKovacs the ones who don’t get jokes
Y’know I find it weird Robert didn’t say more to Robb. The kids literally named after him, he’s grown into a very capable young man, and it’s clear Robert wants nothing more than for their houses to be joined. Robb is the heir of Winterfell and only a few years older than Myrcella. Yet even in the books I don’t remember them interacting beyond the first scene in this video. You could easily imagine the lot of them sitting down for a meal, Robert pulling Ned and Robb over, and telling the kid tales of their youth and their friendship and their battles. Perhaps even with Joffrey present, trying to force a friendship between the kids. But all he gets is ‘You must be Robb’.
Poor Myrcella :(
Might be not implemented because of lack of time and it would not have had anything come from it. It would be nice and would make sense given what we know of the characters but because of the way they were gonna write the show implementing that would make it filler at best.
I think the original plan from D+D was to not give Robb much screen time because he's not a pov chapter in the books. But once they saw how well Richard Madden acted and how commanding his screen presence was they opened up his role and made it more important.
Robert's not really interested in either his or Ned's kids except as instruments to revive his friendship with Ned. Robert doesn't really give a shit about his own children, he pines for the days when he was young and free with Ned at his side. His children are just another reminder of his responsibilities and his hated marriage. So his neglect of Joffrey and the others extends to Ned's. He doesn't care about Robb because he only wants to talk to Ned without being reminded that they aren't boys anymore
Robb goes to the winterfell banquet with myrcela in the books. Basically imthe king's visit turned into a shitshow with the Bran tragedy. After that, Robb stays behind to rule the north so they don't really have time to interact
When you first saw Robert Baratheon you were like "Damn he is the worst guy to rule a kingdom" 8 seasons later WOW Robert was a wide margin the best ruler in the history of the Kingdoms
Truuuee lol
To be fair, it's a pretty low bar. Just "Don't be a bloodthirsty lunatic who slaughters dozens of people a day purely to have something to do for the afternoon" and you're already in the top 10 easy.
@Tyler Aegon the Unworthy would like to have a word with you
@Tyler Maegor the Cruel? Viserys I? Aegon II? Aegon the Unworthy?
@@apugalypse_now Viserys had a good rule in terms of logistics. His biggest fuck up was creating the seed of the Dance of the Dragon and he could have done way more to prevent it but cut the guy some slack he couldn’t have known his bitch wife would betray his wishes before his body was cold.
1:52 the way Sean bean says "Bessy" is so beautiful
BESSEH
Aaaaaa I had the same thought!
Just go to yorkshire then, sheffield in particular, they all talk like it
@@scottwallace5239 tis in the NORTH
Tfw Robert was a better king than anyone who came after him.
amen to fucking that
Tommen woulda been decent i feel like
@@TheJooberjones he was weak and would probably ruin the realm.
M H S even cersei, bran the inactive and dany(for a short period of time) came after robert. And even people fighting for their claim like renly and stannis werent any better than him. Even if ned had ruled he wouldn’t have been a better ruler as he never did anything dishonourable. And dont forget that his predecessor was a madman. So robert truly was the best king.
M H S i agree with you except sometimes dishonourable and illegal things like killing dany needed to be done. If dany would’ve died early on then thousands wouldn’t have lost their lives later on because of her. Other than this ned would’ve been far better than him.
“I’m not trying to honor you. I’m trying to get you to run my kingdom while I drink & whore myself to an early grave.” Might be my fav 😂
Robert: Whats holding it together?
Cersei: Our marriage
Robert: *laughs*
Cersei: Oh shit he thinks I'm joking better laugh with him then
He was laughing because it was the truth. Their hateful marriage is what kept Tywin on Robert's side. And that kept everyone in line. Except that one time ...
Baby T Rex To be fair Roberto was also cucking cersei with like half the women in Westeros
@@PM-vb4od Thanks Cap
tbh i dont even think robert would have been that mad if he had known cersei was sleeping around, its the fact that all his children are jamies, thats what woulda made him kill them all
They were laughing because of the irony that the only thing keeping everything together was their spiteful marriage. Like there marriage was a mess but it's what's keeping the kingdoms together at that point. It was a pretty good joke.
Just like season 8 was rushed, so was season 1, because god damn we needed at least 2 seasons of this brilliance
Yeah. Ned and Robert carried season 1. I miss them.
There's a scene in the books where The hound beats jaime in jousting tournament and Robert laughs like maniac, I wish they'd have put that scene in the show.
0:46
Robert: you'll be a soldier
Bran:i identify my self as 3 eYeD rAvEn
lmao
Lmfao savage
"I am the senate"
check your privilege, transcriplephobe
@@Malphas87
more like birdphobe
5:53 there's something so wholesome about this scene, like they're a couple who legitimately loved each other and are kinda laughing at the tragic fact that the marriage never worked out but they still kinda like each other as friends
Shame the drunk died happier
I don't think they ever truly loved each other, not romantically. Cersei was betrothed to Rhaegar from a young age and knowing she couldn't have Jaime, wanted him. She married Robert and was happy to go along with it (she wanted to be queen and make her father happy), until Robert revealed he only wanted Lyanna, even though she was dead by this point.
Robert meanwhile was so fixated on Lyanna, he was obsessed, but it was only the idea of her that he loved. He never wanted Cersei, but he stayed married to her because he needed Tywin Lannister's support more.
When you realize his best moments is his whole screen time
He should have won an Emmy for his performance.
Robert should have realized Joffey wasn't his son when he asked him how you let a little girl disarm you 🤔🤔🤦🏿♂️
Keith Jefferson and when he saw how there was literally no resemblance to him, though i dont know if the book made him out to be as unlike him physically.
@@TheJooberjones samething I was thinking
@@TheJooberjones He looks like his mother and his father who is his mother's twin brother so he probably thought it was fine.
Joffrey resembled Cersei and that was it. He had the classic Lannister looks but didn't behave like Jaime at all. Marcella and Tommen also looked like Lannisters, so to Robert, that was further evidence that his own genes simply weren't passed on, at least as far as his looks were concerned. Had he paid more attention to them, he would have realized that Marcella was smart and Tommen was timid--but even then, nobody would have guessed that they were Jaime's kids.
@@MCSPARTAN501 you absolutely right
“Go find the breastplate stretcher” is like telling your younger sibling to find the blinker fluid at autozone except in modern times 🤣
"dammit children fight its over"
"Jeoffrey will bear these scars for his life"
*INTENSE LOOK*
"You let that little girl disarm you?!"
No one knows about that little girl.
@@neelabhkashyap7311 Yep, she is literally supergirl. She can teleport, and has sword skills that god couldn't compete with.
This show used to be so great, goddamn it.
@Bilal Khalid I think we're well post that point. We reached the fucked up stage when two moronic little girls somehow killed one of the most powerful and intelligent men in Westeros, littlefinger. Fucking DnD expect us to believe Arya and Sansa could outwit Lord Baelish.
@@summushieremiasclarkson4700 I feel u bro lol
Looks at the Night King in the afterlife:
"You let that little girl kill you?!"
Man, the writing was so good back then. And I've also come to realize that the scene with Cersei and Robert is the only time Cersei genuinely laughs at something.
The writing was shit back then as it was in the last 2 seasons. Its not the writing that was good, its was the fact that back then they had great books to follow, when they finished the books and Martin still had 2 more books to write, all they had left was the shit writing of the screen writers and you can see how they fuck it up with the last 2 seasons. If Martin had finished all the books so the idiots can fallow them this could have been the best show in history. Shame !
@@gheorghenegreanu8409 I mean, I agree that D&D are trash and writing and all of that... But I think that scene wasn't in the book and it was show original (as some others), so they are trash and deserve the backlash they got, but they did some good stuff too, we can't just look past that.
Fans: "Are we going to get a good ending to the series?"
D&D: 6:00
😂
LMAO!
The subtle distortions killed me. Especially with his bug-eyed laugh.
Yeah, I died when he said, Get moreee!
Man it must have been seriously awkward when Robert went to the afterlife and saw Rhaegar...
He would have just battered him again.
Even more so when he saw Lyanna.
@LagiNaLangAko23 Awkward for Robert. Painful for Rhaegar. Also, how would Elia and her kids feel about this?
Nope, all Robert saw was Bessy's great big titts. RIP big guy.
he'd kill him again
This is great but I feel like its missing one of his best serious moments:
"You want to know the horrible truth? I can't even remember what she looked like. I only know she was the one thing I ever wanted. Someone took her away from me, and seven kingdoms couldn't fill the hole she left behind"
The way he spoke, the look in his eyes. Too real 💔
True great scene, most of these were meant to be funny I assume
And then came S8 and constantly tryed to ruin this scene...
Best King,never burned innocent people
Neither did Joffrey
@@worlds22 joffrey killed innocent babe and started the war when he killed ned stark but he's the 2rd best after robert
@@dzoussama440 when did he kill an innocent babe?
@Missy T and look at what one of those two children is doing now.
Joffrey was a spoiled little psycho. Ned should have taken over.
That "making the eight" bit kills me. Robert was the best and Mark Addy played him so perfectly.
He's one of the things that was actually better than the book version. He hits all the important plot points of book Bobby B, but he's just a little more fun and the stuff they added makes him a little more likeable whereas the book version is just frustrating.
I did like how in the book shows that Robert just doesn't want to be king but even he knows Joffrey can't be king cause he's crazy
@@BucketThinkTank14657Nerd If i remember correctly, it's implied Robert wanted Stannis to succeed him.
@@vynonyoutube1418 Not really, the books mention that Robert originally wanted Ned or Jon Arryn to be king when the rebellion ended (and it sounds like Robert is sort of hurt that his best friend left him in King's Landing). He did give Stannis Dragonstone which Stannis took as a slight but it is also the seat of the Crown Prince which solidifies Stannis as his heir in the event Robert has no children.
LagiNaLangAko23 they had a falling out over It but they did patch things up after Lyanna’s death and I think Ned left primarily because of the baby Lyanna had.
I don't remember the ''you let that little girl disarm you?'' line being in the book but it really is a great quote he would have said.
Cersei: I shall wear this like a badge of honor
Robert: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again
Most badass moment ever
Intimidating one of the most powerful ladys of the realm is no small feat. Robert would have stomped any who would defy him in single combat and in wit. Yet we will never know. The gods are cruel in design; and may any who forget this isn't a sweet normal women. She is evil heartless and ruthless. Loving only her kids. I adore her as a character, but as a person I'd stab her in the back myself even if it meant death. Only Robert could be so largess that hitting a Lanister meant nothing. He truly was a king . . even if he was shit at the role.
Mmmm wife beating
@@spinningindaffodils as we like to call it, domestic boxing
I love how when you first watch the show, Robert seems like a bad king, a drunken fool unfit for the title, but after watching the whole show, he was right about almost everything, he had a wisdom to him, he knew how to rule, he might not have enjoyed it, but he knew his responsibilities, he knew not to indulge in violence. When I start the series over I always find myself loving Robert because he had years and years of peace under his reign, we all were taught to dislike him, only to be shown the real evil doers after his death. What a great show
I still believe stannis would've made a very good king.
@@Blackdeathgaming-yv1kk Book/early Stannis, definitely. By the end of his character in the series he was a husk.
Literally everything he said came to fruition,he just knew the type of person he was he wasn’t rightfully fit to be king for the day to day duties
The end when we see the greatest evil that were D&D.
@@Blackdeathgaming-yv1kk Stannis? The man who literally burned his own daughter alive?
The way he treated Lannisters especially Lancel was hilarious 😭😂
It’s so depressing to see both Robert and Ned dead by the end of season 1, their chemistry was unmatched.
I would have loved to have seen them go through the whole series. I think westeros would have looked very very different if they would have stayed alive
I knew knothing of the franchise. Just noticed one day Sean Bean plays in it and started watching. And of course, what needed to happen, happened. Just wasn't expecting it so soon.
2:24 Kim Kardashian's kids are going to be hearing this a lot as they get older
Bruce Wayne Oh, Bravo! 👏😂
LOL
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 🤣🤣🤣 JESUS DUDE
lmaaaaaoooooooooo!!!!! i just died!!
Stolen on the original clip.
"So get mOOOre." God that killed me
I repeated the scene over and over and lost my sides forever.
Robert Baratheon was such a joy to watch 🤩