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"Robert was neither mad nor cruel, he simply had no interest in being King." - Lord Varys

Robert is insanely traumatized. The show doesn't really capture that. He doesn't love Cersei and frankly hates the Lannister's. He wishes he died on the battlefield.

Robert was in love with the idea of Lyanna Stark. He believes she would have made him a better man, without ever really knowing her.

1. Something I always thought was fitting was that both Robert and Cersei are in love with "ghosts". Robert loved his idealised version of Lyanna, even though he barely knew her, while Cersei never quite got over the fact that she never got to marry Prince Rhaegar, but rather *the man who killed him.* 2. Robert is basically the fantasy hero that killed his dragon (Rhaegar) , but failed to get the girl (Lyanna) and the grief ate him alive, except he wasn't granted the mercy of the credits rolling, instead his descent is slow and painfull. Instead of dealing with it, he just threw himself into hedonism which only temporarily buried the pain. Which made him willfully blind to the accumulating problems his way of ruling was creating. 3. Its actually a fan theory that Robert was HOPING for a war to make himself feel alive again and I can understand why. Him not anihilating the Greyjoys after their rebellion and instead both sparing Balon and letting him continue to rule the Iron Islands as a vassal of the Crown, combined with the fact that he was *always* anticipating an attack from the remaining Targeryans tells me that he was constantly on the lookout for another war to fight. Preferably one he could actually win though.

This has always been one of my favourite scenes of the entire series. Cersei, asking Robert about Lyanna in his moment is quite possibly the most honest conversation they've ever had. And she had most likely decided Robert was going to die and soon. And her asking was curiosity plain and simple. She wanted to have an answer to something that has literally haunted their marriage and to leave no unfinished business between them. She had to know, before she could never know.

A warrior does not fear a quick death on the field. But a slow one in the bed. Robert baratheon was depressed and bored. So he engaged in self destruction. It happens to everyone that feels more alive in war than they do in peace.

I once read a fanfic that might have been game of thrones i don't remember but the main character before going of to war looked at his family very intently trieing to memorise all their features. And thats when i realised something i had never really thought about and that is that before cameras or a lack of highy skilled painters lots of people would actually forget the faces of loved ones after not having seen them in a while. And that to me (even though roberts love with lyanna never really was a thing) makes it a very powerful scene.

Roberts Reign in a Nutshell: "Im Done now You clean up the fucking mess"

I think for Cersei, this is less about Robert and more about Rhaegar. She still thinks about Rhaegar decades later, and she was denied as a marriage prospect for Rhaegar while he ran off with Lyanna.

It's wrong to assume that every scene not in the books was written by David and Dan, at least for the first 4 seasons. George was literally a writer on the show, and coincidentally ever since he stopped being a writer the show stopped having scenes like this. My theory is that George wrote these scenes for the show, or at least played a large role in producing them.

You want to know know the horrible. I can't remember what she looked like. I only remember 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 Robert Baratheon

To be totally honest. Lyanna and Robert was also an arranged marriage, so either way someone would’ve been unhappy. Robert strikes me as a washed up athlete too, he is constantly dwelling on his best days from the past. Honestly if Lyanna was forced to do her duty like Cersei was we wouldn’t have 5 books.

I think Robert and Cersei’s marriage is absolutely all that’s holding the seven kingdoms together during his reign. Tywin would never be content to leave the country at peace if he didn’t have a direct line, even a potentially far away one, to control the kingdoms

Cersei was right. Their marriage did hold the realm together, along with Robert’s lack of knowledge of the incest. He died, ending their marriage, and all hell broke loose.

He wasn’t delusional, he was disillusioned. “Winning a throne is easier than sitting on one”. He was a soldier, not a statesman or politician. Not loving his wife and hating his job he took to drink and whoring.

I've always been puzzled by the fact Cersei would have certainly cheated on robert anyways but was so bent out of shape over that fact he didnt love her. It's such an odd egotistical spite. I mean its in character for her to be a dumbass with no self reflection.

The thing that would've pissed Robert off the most would be him finding out that Cersei really was his soulmate 😂

I look for mirrored similarities in GOT in the books. I always thought King Robert had feelings for Lyanna like LittleFinger felt towards Kat/Sansa. Everyone is in love with the idea of everyone else

I think Robert secretly wanted a war, which is why he fixated on the idea of one. It's his bread and butter, he knows it and loves doing it, much more than being King. It's an excellent escape for him

“Conspiracy theorist who is oblivious to many real threats as well as his children not being his” holy shit Robert is Dale Gribble

AHHHH the thought that Robert might have said "I can't even remember what she looked like" not out of grief but out of "she was an obsession that burned hot but not a lasting love to remember" is SOOO interesting, I had not considered it that way until this video. Of course I had considered (and headcanon) that the robert/lyanna relationship WAS one-sided. AND the parallel between Robert being a good conqueror but a poor leader with Robert "demanding" that everyone "gets along." At least Show Daenerys (I refuse to believe this is how True Daenerys would act) *ALWAYS* just spoke at people until they gave in, perhaps with one showy display of either her dragons or her loyal men. (I think that's where D&D failed her character, she didn't JUST make speeches she actually considered her role in EVERYTHING the dragons did "if they are monsters, then so am I") BUT I think it's a really interesting parallel, again one I had not considered! My thoughts on Robert are that he truly did believe his strength and sturdiness was what the realm needed to be "stable." He thought if he continued as a war-time military leader everything would be fine. His strength would command all. Oooh but that's another consideration, isn't it? That blood ties and family words are not just marks of a family but also portents that you speak upon yourself. "Ours is the fury" Well there are a few ways we could read that. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" is an easy interpretation with Cersei representing the boar that literally gored Robert. And then there's the "fury" of the wild. Boars are some of the most vicious, non-mythical, creatures in the wild. And Robert thought himself above a simple pig. But his mistake was that it was not a pig...but a boar.... ahh im thinking too much about it lol but this video had me pondering about an episode that aired when i was in middle school 😅 Well done!

imagine trying to tell a 6"5 lump of pure muscle who can have your head on a spike quicker than he can put his boots on that he may have a bad case of the Feelings

I don't think anyone would deny that D&D wrote 3-4 of the best seasons of television ever put to screen. When season 1 of GOT wrapped there was 40-50 minutes of run time left to pad out which the writers had to come up with themselves. The fact that these "filler" scenes stand out as some of the best in the first season shows how good an understanding D&D had of these characters at one point, and makes their creative choices in later seasons all the more frustrating.

Robert should have been Minister of War or some such.

Robert was a womaniser and Lyanna knew this. He wanted Lyanna, initally, because he found her attractive. He didn't know her as an individual. In my headcanon, I believe that friends likely hinted to Robert that Lyanna didn't really desire or want him and was less than happy with their match, but he had an over inflated ego, owing to the fact that most women did find him desirable; he was in complete denial and refused to entertain the possibility that the one he coveted didn't want him. If she hadn't eloped with Rhaegar (per show canon) and had, instead, married him as intended, he would eventually have grown tired of her and been as unfaithful to her as he was to Cersei, because he wasn't in love with Lyanna for herself; he was in love with the notion of her, of wooing her and winning her, and, when she died, he could only ever envision his idealised version of her.

The one line I remember from Robert "What's the bigger number 5 or 1?" /holds up his hand "5" /holds up his fist "1"

Back when the writing was still good, it WAS really good.

I think the books played more of a role to the scene than the D&D's writing did. It's not a bad scene, it's basically just other characters opinions and musings about their relationship and motivations given new life in a scene in the show. It's hard to give them a whole lot of credit here since the heavy lifting was already done for them in the source material.

These scenes in season 1 that they added to pad out runtime are absolutely phenomenal. I love the "war stories" one between Robert, Jaime, and Barristan. They really show more depth to the characters that we don't have POVs for that early in the books. Pure show material that shined like gold, now compare that to the filler scenes in the latter seasons.

Gods the writing was strong back then

Robert: You're grown fat. Eddard: You have shrinked.

I don’t see how that makes him delusional when he was never told. Ned uses his love for Lyanna to convince him to do things. The implication being that it was mutual and he didn’t know. In the books, Cersei mentioned that Robert was always trying to get her to hunt with him and how much he loved riding horses (like Lyanna). He probably just wanted a tomboyish wife.

I think Robert’s true love was Ned and Lyanna dying meant he’d never be family to Ned and that’s why he’s really mad. I doubt he really cared for Lyanna as a person, he seems to view her as a means to an end, an object to win. Which is why he was so quick to betroth Joffrey to Sansa.

I personally think that deep down he knew that Lyanna chose Rhaegar. He saw her cry while listening to Rhaegar sing at Harrenhal, he saw the spark between them, he saw her reaction when Rhaegar picked her at the tourney. I think he WANTED to believe that Rhaegar stole her because it was too painful to accept that Lyanna did not want to marry him. I also think that if Robert actually believed that Rhaegar kidnapped Lyanna, then he would have waited to kill him until after he forced Rhaegar to divulge where he was keeping her. But he didn’t…he killed Rhaegar swiftly in a rage of jealousy…not in a “seeking justice” sort of way like you’d expect from a man who’s beloved had been taken from him.

D&D didn't run out of material or anything, they ran out of drive for the genre. They'd poured allot of creative energy into the world to this point and were years deep and other more interesting projects/IPs were on the horizon. They were like a game master who'd run a really great Dungeons and Dragons game for years but were to the point it wasn't firing the creative juices and was more obligation than anything. They were getting paid great and enjoying success but like, creative energy is creative energy and at a certain point you get burned out on fantasy and like to stretch out into other genres like science fiction. I think as soon as they landed their Star Wars projects it was like "okay, let's get this out of the way to get on to the new and exciting for us stuff!" Literally HBO was thrilled with the success and I think offered them more money and indeed more seasons but they at this point just wanted it done. When people lose a creative spark for something the material suffers but it wasn't like they could put it on hiatus and go back to it. Which may have been the only way to save it.

Great video and a great insight into Bobby B and how he was both the most clued up and clueless character of the first season. Just a quick note (and please do take this with a grain of sand as I’m not a UKpostsr), but the background music was a little too dissonant for me with the video’s topic/content. Otherwise, great analysis and very much enjoyed!

The additions D&D made to the show from seasons 1-3 are phenomenal. It's too bad they only did the show to get to the Red Wedding and didn't care about what came next. It really could have been great if they cared and I think that's really why fans hate them.

Bruh, actually imagine what this man would’ve done if he heard about the dragons 😂

I think when Cersei mentioned that the entire realm was held together by their marriage is that Robert owed so much to the lannisters and the iron bank that if they were to separate it would lead to a conflict between who rules Westeros and how the king will ever repay the debts without conquering or going into a war with the lannisters for their gold.

This was a very good scene 😀 and it was foreshadowing this and the one with tywin talking to Jaime after he attacked Ned Stark both written ✍️ by Dan and Dave

Haha, I love the happy lil' background music.

House Baratheon has never been known for ruling their lands, but for wars many of them didn’t even know how to read they allow other people to handle those matters

Also, his wife also said she was in love with the prince and she was still sleeping with her brother so her loving somebody means nothing because she loves herself more so she sleeps with her relatives because they look like her or they remind her of her

I think that one scene in the crypt redefines him entirely. He just doesn’t care as much without his lady stark love anymore kinda just doing what he has to do as long in a way he wants to without much thought to consequences because there’s no point and worse case it’s not his problem anymore

Great video. I want to touch on something you mentioned in your opening. D&D are incredibly talented filmmakers/showrunners, the show went off a cliff because they lost their passion/interest in the show after season 6 and rushed what should have been a 40 episode story into 14 episodes. And yes seasons 5 and 6 are brilliant. What it lacks in writing it more than makes up for with an absolute masterclass in visual filmmaking. And with regards to the writing in seasons 5/6 I’m 100% sure they were told WOW would be long done by the time they reached that part of the story. Seasons 7 and 8 are a disgrace

They didn't run out of source material, they ran out of f*cks to give and the real turning point was season five.

They did good with George watching

The issue of Westero' lack of unity in the face of a Dothraki invasion is purely a show invention, intended to undermine Ned's claims that the invasion is not much of a concern, and does not justify murdering women and unborn children. It does not really speak to Robert's disengagement, since that is one of the few instances of him acting according to what he perceives as the good of the realm, instead of his wounded pride and displaced hatred toward the Targaryens. Jorah, who is an experienced lord & knight of Westeros, who fought in Robert's Rebellion and the Greyjoy Rebellion, and has lived with the Dothraki long enough to speak their tongue and explain their customs in terms a Westeros woman like Dany can understand, believes that the Dothraki would have no choice against the fortifications of Westeros, and furthermore, he believes that Robert's closest lords, like Ned, Stannis & Tywin, are smart enough to exploit their advantages. Regarding Robert's counter-arguments, invented by a writing staff that proves abundantly in later seasons that they have zero comprehension of feudal politics or warfare, the commoners might get pissed that their lords are hiding in castles, while the Dothraki ravage the countryside, but so what? They are still outside the castles, lords don't have to stand for reelection and the Dothraki are racists who view every other ethnicity as inferior, and would not have the means or motive to appeal to the people and get them on their side, to make them loyal subjects of King and khalakka Rhaego son of Drogo, rightful heir to House Targaryen. Secondly, a foreign invasion is generally a perfect cure for internal dissension. The lords of Westeros fight over land, wealth, power and reputation, and the Dothraki threaten all of those things and don't offer any opportunities for the lords to get them by turning coat to Team Drogo. Basically, this scene is Robert talking out of his ass because the writers want to make everyone think that Ned is bad at politics, and that their faves, the Lannisters, are smarter and more sympathetic than they really are.

I loved everything up to the last few seasons

Robert Baratheon is a Warlord. He is wasted in peace but War - that's where he flourished. If he were alive when Danaerys arrived, when the Others were marching, that would have been something.

that is a really good point D! you can fall in love with someone that you don't know but I don't recommend it. I imagine that if Robert married Lyanna that he wouldn't have treat her much different than he does to Cersei. Hopefully Ned and the other Starks would have slapped some sense into him if he did marry into the Stark family. great video.

D& D stopped caring.

9:06 they just stopped caring

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Cersei's self indulgent delusion causes her to believe that it's her, and her relationships, that are holding the kingdom together.

Its funny i onky knew mark addy from still standing and i swear he was from the midwest he really is underrated from playing a depressed king to a fun loving dad.

Robert seems to have been in love with the whole Stark family. Very much idealized them and their tight family bond. Too bad that he was never able to form such bonds with his own brothers. Not sure if that was an innate character flaw or a part of the depression that he never got over. In hs idealized world, he would not be king. And his best friend Ned would be more of a side character, with fewer responsibilities who could possibly even come live with him (and Lyanna) at Storms End if he wasn't needed somewhere else.

I don’t think Weiss and Benioff were untalented. They just wanted to be free of GOT as quickly as possible so they could sign some very lucrative deals. Problem is they fucked up their own reputations on the way out the door

The thing about Robert is that he can be a pretty decent or a pretty terrible king, depending on how you look at it. He‘s clearly not an administrator, but when he had reliable people to govern for him, he did pretty well. And he was extremely good at diffusing military crises, both because he was a competent and charismatic military leader, and because he was diplomatically flexible; Robert doesn‘t take things personally (except Lyanna) and so avoids making permanent enemies of people who opposed him before, but neither does he back down from a fight. And he does usually trust the right people: By all accounts Jon Arryn is very good at his job and both Ned and Stannis more than pull their weight during military conflicts; more effective than Mace Tyrell or Paxter Redwyne, as we see both during Robert’s Rebellion (when they are enemies) but also during the Greyjoy Uprising (when they are on the same side). It‘s only when Robert doesn‘t have trustworthy people that he gets into trouble. He knows people like Tywin are snakes, but for that reason he hates working with them and so doesn‘t, and instead basically leaves the field to them. I think Robert would have been a fantastic King during the early-to-mid feudal era where there was basically no state apparatus to contend with, and all the Kings were basically just big warlords among other warlords who spent all their time either at war or chilling in their castle and impregnating local peasantry. Later, of course, there would be a style of royalty that‘s completely representative and who‘s job was basically to drink and screw around while the job of governing was left to paid lackeys (not other noblemen who could potentially threaten you); he would clearly have done fine at that, as well. It‘s this in-between situation that‘s awkward for Robert, where there‘s kind of a government but no professional bureaucrats to govern for you. Actually, now that I think about it, I have no idea what the State is even spending money on when there‘s no state apparatus or standing army. At most it‘d be the Goldcloaks (which you can probably finance with taxes and tariffs on the local merchants) and upkeep of the Red Keep. Maybe there is something to the theory that Baelish is just embezzling everything.

The thing with Robert is that we are witnessing the aftermath of what sbould be his "..hapily ever after" and nothing is going that way and he doesn't know why himself A prince kidnaps his betrothed. The mad king unjustly killed his best friends dad and demanded his own head. His best friend and surrogate father stand by him against the king. He has a climactic battle against said prince, gets the throne though losing his betrothed marries the richest and one of the most beautiful women inthe country. That should be the end. There should be satisfaction but theres not. It should be noted Robert really was the guy when he was young. Ripped like maidens fantasy. Brave. Strong. Handsome. Wealthy. Competent. During the rebellion not all his lords were loyal he fought three consecutive battles with each of those factions and won back them to his side with charisma alone but he fell off

This really stuck out to me as one of the best written and performed scenes in the show. I’m actually appalled that the same writers were responsible for the last two seasons

Also, the most important thing is that he never wanted to be king so he was never gonna take the consult meeting serious unlike Ned and John

King Robert's thoughts were echoed by Joffrey later on. He said to Cersei about a single Army for the Seven Kingdoms, and said to Tywin that something should be done about the potential threat of the Dragons to Westeros. Both Robert and Joffrey were right. It's a shame no one took their worries seriously...

This is the reason i want a prequel for the rebellion. I feel it would add so much to the story we know and the characters we see. More tragedy i suppose but i do want a better understanding of Robert's character. From my understanding the reason dnd made the show was because they wanted to recreate the red wedding that was Thier ambition so they didn't really know where to go after that.

It's almost like Martin was still helping with dialogue and script in season 1.

I think cersei and roberts marriage is holding the kingdom together. The absolute unifying power suddenly dissapears, and the one person left is a super distant relative with almost no claim, but not many have a better one. With the starks and arryns allied with the baratheons, the power of the lannister backing (richest most influential house) really cements his seat. If it were just the stormlands, north, and vale, the dornish or reach might think about becoming independent as they were before Targaryen, since there are no longer Targaryen rulers. The riverlands were allies through marriages to north & vale who themselves were allied with robert baratheon. If the lannisters are also involved, the riverlands is surrounded so their support would be guaranteed. Thats pretty much westeros minus tyrells and martells (who sided with the targaryens so basically winners vs losers and the royal marriage is vital to that alliance)

Robert loved Lyanna simply because he couldn't have her. He held up an idolized version of her. He would have ended up bored with her and cheating on her the same as with Cersei. He would have moved on to other women. But because he couldn't have her and she died she remained forever yound and perfect in his eyes. She saw this so ran off with Rheagar. Robert only wanted to party. He was smart just lazy and only cared about his own pleasures. He dragged Ned from his peaceful quiet life up north not caring weather he wanted to do the job or could do the job just wanted his friend to party with him.

This is a great video, but the background music is way too upbeat for the subject matter

I think Cersei is somewhat correct about her political marriage with Robert "holding the realm together." Robert represents the end of a bloody dynasty: A shining hero who felled the wicked prince, the tragic lover who lost Lyanna. At least in the eyes of the smallfolk. Cersei is an obvious and direct bargaining chip of Tywin Lannister, the bride that tied the Lannister name, fortune, and Tywin's own cunning to Roberts' symbolic strength. Their alliance alone would have easily quelled many an uprising in the 17 years between the rebellion and the pilot.

9:00 it is true they were good at adapting source material and expanding on it. The fact that the first 3-4 seasons are this good are a proof of that. Adapting a novel to a screen format is not as easy as just copying text from a book into a script. I don't agree with the conclusion, however. Yes they did run out of source material. You can't expand on something if there is nothing to expand on. Majority of season 6 and entirety of seasons 7 and 8 are their original work. And even before that, while they still had source material to work with and expand upon, they actively ignored it to write their own thing (the way they butchered Sand Snakes in s5 and further is a prime example of that)

I think that Robert really wanted Ned as a brother more than he even wanted to marry Lyanna.

When Cersei says the realm is held together by their marriage, I think it's just an observation that wars are often started over succession to the throne. Robert took the throne by conquest, no one really disputes his rule for that reason, and Cersei has provided him with three heirs (at least people think that). Their family represents "normal": a king married to his queen, and they have legitimate heirs, the oldest of which will take the throne when it's time. No one is opposing them, no one is going to start a war over it.

Season 1 laid a great foundation for Game of Thrones. However ther the flaws in DnDs writing were present even then. Most of them were minor enough that GRR Martin's plot and the amazing acting talents of the older cast overshadowed them for the most part.

Robert would have came into his own once again once the the Clash of Kings started. War is his one thing.

The music is fxcked up a little 😂

Good video with good points, though I will correct on one thing. George Martin was still heavily involved with the show in the first few seasons. So honestly, it is just as likely that he's the one that wrote this scene as anyone else.

1:22 Cersei is actually a little bit right about their marriage, it's Tywin's influence that keeps the realm running peacefully and Robert only has Tywin while he is married to Cersei

Would love to see a show with Robert in his prime

Robert didn't know her, he didn't love her. His pride was injured when Lyanna was supposedly kidnapped by Rhaegar and he reacted to defend what he believed was rightfully his. During her supposed captivity and after her death, he idealized and idolized her to justify himself. Had she married him, he would have cheated on her too.

i think cersei was joking when she said their marriage held the realm together but i feel like in a way there is truth to it considering the pretense of their union gave most people no reason to question the legitimacy of her children (yet)

Robert I believe deep down knew Lyanna didn't love him but didn't want to accept that fact. I doubt she ever showed interest in Robert. If he had gotten to marry Lyanna he would've eventually gotten angry once he would've seen that she was only human and not the girl he assumed her to be and then had done her as shitty as he did Cersei.

Robert wasn't dellusional, he simply didn't care. He didn't want to become king and said it should have been Nedd, who actually would have been a good king. Robert also told Nedd in the books he knew Jeffory was lying about what happened with Arya and didn't want to kill Sansa's wolf but had no choice when Cersi forced his hand. He also told Nedd that he would leave Westeros now and join the Golden Company but can't because then Joffery would be King and knewn he be a horrible King. Also you have to remember that Robert could always rely on the North, the Valve, Storm's End, and the Riverlands for help with any war he needed to fight. The Western lands would either fight or stay neutral so long as he had Cersi and Jamie close to him. Which left the Iron Islands, Dorne and the Reach to rebel against him if a Targaryen invasion happened. The Dothraki invasion would never have been successful on account Westeros was too big, they had no fixed friendly landing spot. Stannis probably could have destroyed their navy fleet out at sea. Or even by some miracle had they landed and Dorne and the Reach had delcare for them winter was just around the corner which would have sealed their faith.

My head cannon is that Robert subconsciously knows that those aren't his children. That would explain a lot of his behavior.

Interesting... choice of music but good video overall.

i absolutely agree, D&D quit giving af, but they were also super arrogant, they felt like it was _theirs_ and that, even if they're phoning it in and cutting corners, they felt like _they_ should still be the ones to helm the show.

It's made very plain in the literature that Robert was good at war, and not much else.

Do you think Bobby B is a Teletubby ? (Background music)

D&D were very good at adapting the source material. And that scene is part of that adaptation. But when they did had to create content from scratch, the ship sank

Even a blind pig finds a truffle every once in a while.

Pretty sure this scene was actually written or had very heavy input from GRRM, those 2 buffoons couldn't come up with such a scene.

Benioff and Wess NEVER knew what they were doing. The mistake and mischaracterizations in this, and other invented scenes, prove that even in the "good seasons", they were still incompetent and drafting off Martin's material and were fairly hopeless without it. The books state that the Dothraki quest to claim Westeros for the Targaryens is futile, and they show Ned as basically competent at politics, whose downfall is that that he did not anticipate a court stuffed with enemies of the crown and that Robert was so checked out and unwilling to engage with responsible administration. Benioff and Weiss clearly thought that since Ned ended up getting killed, he failed and thus he sucks, so Ned must be wrong and they wrote the show that way. They decided to give Cersei more "nuance" completely missing the point that the emotionally abusive upbringing Tywin imposed on all his children, and his failure to engage with them or to treat them as more than tools, has made her into an incompetent politician. The point is that the Lannister superiority complex has rendered Cersei paranoid and incapable of loving anyone but herself, while Ned's form of parenting and leadership has his children well-prepared to cope with all sorts of challenges and rise to be good men and women, and has the North fighting to bring back his children to rule them, because they want more of that Stark leadership.

I think Cersei is partially correct from an objective POV and 100% correct from a subjective POV when she says their marriage is holding the realms together. Their marriage was a political agreement between the military alliance of the Starks, Arryns and ruling Baratheons with the rich Lannisters. The time following the rebellion was relatively peaceful with the Lannisters bankrolling Robert and the alliance putting down rebellion following the usurpation of the Targaryan dynasty. While there were a lot of factors in play for the realm's relative stability, the Lannister/Baratheon alliance was definitely a part of it, and it is fully consistent with Cersei's character to fully believe that she is the cornerstone of that peace.

Now that after the disastrous ending of GOT D&D have a lot to prove to the audience, I think Three Body Problem might be good.

Robert was based

The invasion from the Dothraki would never succeed if the 7 kingsdoms are not in a civil war. They need to be transported by ship, the amount of logistics needed to feed a horse riding army, even if it's just for 3 days (pentos to kingslanding) is insane. Then comes the idea that they (the dothraki) needs to disembark, reform, rest and then be a threat. A single major house should/would be able to counter the invasion. The amount of invaders would be very limited, the threat of the army would be very limited, unless they are allowed to muster and prepare on your own soil.

Robert Baratheon was the Bert Kreischer of Westeros

If he lover her by all heart without knowing anymore how she looked like.. It means he loves someone unconditionally. Thats strong.. And way more negative cause lose loving such people goes over years..

The only reason robert wasn't worse off what because of the lannister money which he got by marrying cersi

Robert accurately assessed most threats to the throne. I don’t think he was that clueless. I think Cersei was a manipulative gaslighter and so it’s hard to know what reality is through the lens of a conversation with her.