This scene is so fucking incredible because of the subtle undercurrent of the conversation. When Robert talks about not being able to remember Lyanna only the hole she left behind Cersei has sympathy because of the loss of her own mother. And then when she asks Robert if he ever loved her and he says no, I imagine that is when she decides to have him killed. No parts are clumsily explained as if they think the audience can't read into anything. It's just such a well-written and human conversation between two flawed characters.

Making Ned his brother-in-law was the one thing he ever wanted.

Nah this one time i fel mt bad for her cause da king was wrong for telling her sum shit like that after all he put her thru how can you say to this woman face that another woman is the only thing out the whole 7 kingdoms is the only thing u ever wanted smh.. much as i cant stand this lady ion think i could tell her something like that 😞💔

I love how ashamed Robert looks when he says, "I know." It's like he realizes and acknowledges that Cersei tried to give herself to him and he's ashamed of the fact that he didn't give her what she wanted.

I memorize their lines here by heart 🥲🥲 I felt some sympathy for Cersei in this part.

Why no one is sad about Cersei ?

If he could have given her a chance, she might have let go of Jaimie.

The fact that Robert was willing to start a war for a woman who he loved that didn’t love him back is truly heartbreaking.

"someone took her away from me, and the seven kingdoms couldn't fill the hole she left behind"

Cersie says that they have a 1st boy, what if their 1st child lived? Could things have been better?

As much as Cersei would hate to admit it, she desperately wanted someone to feel for her the way Robert felt for Lyanna, but her narcissism and misogyny would never allow anyone but Jamie too.

This is one of the best pieces of acting in the history of acting, I’m convinced!!

Jada and Will if they were medieval characters lol BAD MARRIAGE FOR LIFE

Cercei does not deserve any pity and sympathy. She's a narcissist bitch and Robert Baratheon was the husband she deserved.

She never had a chance. He loved another

This scene didn't happen in the book, but it's nice that they put at least one scene of them having a nice conversation without Robert being abusive to Cersei or telling her to shut up. Opening up to one other and admitting how they felt about one another that their love never had a chance. All because Robert couldn't get over a girl who he barely knew. A girl who happened to be the sister of his best friend who he just wanted to stay close with. It's so ironic in a tragic way that while he remembers the faces of everybody he killed, he can't seem to remember hers.

Cersei Lannister is probably the most complex character in Game of Throne.

It’s easy to hate the Lannister’s but there is a bit of me that feels for all of them even Cersei

The irony is that one of my favorite conventions in the series never happened in the books. Where tf were these writers in season 8?

This is the best scene in the entire show

11 years ago... 😢😢😢 i wish i could go back to when this was posted 😢😢😢

one of the best scenes easily

I know it's been repeated in the comments, but I'm going to repeat it again: "You want to know the horrible truth? I can't even remember what she looked like. I only know that she was the one thing I ever wanted. Someone took her away from me. And seven kingdoms couldn't fill the hole that she left behind." Goddamn.

God, the dialogue is so good in this scene. Just two people with a long, nuanced history having the honest talk they wished they had long ago. Shame, regret and apathy.

I’ve never watched the show (yet) nor read the books and I’m invested into this so much I’m looking up certain scenes like this.

I feel like whomever wrote this probably experienced what it was like to be in a “loveless” marriage but still forcing yourself to stay together (either themselves or maybe their parents) because DAMN this feels genuine.

One thing Cersei did learn from Robert: if everythings overwhelming, just drink wine.

This was the exact moment when Cersei decided she would go all-out with disposing of Robert

Extremely underrated scene. I often think about when Robert says, "And seven kingdoms couldn't fill the hole she left behind". Watching it again, he delivered that whole line so beautifully. Great acting

He could have had a beautiful loyal wife and beautiful children, and a loving marriage because she actually loved him or at least the idea of him, while he loved the ghost of a woman who never loved him, he loved the idea of her, of taming the “she wolf” and treating her like a queen. Even if Lyanna loved him she would have grown to hate him, because he liked to whore and drink. He uses her death to excuse his whoring and drinking, like “ if only she had lived I would have been faithful and sober, and spent my days loving her and farming the land for our children” but he really just loved whoring, drinking and fighting. Bobby would have been a very happy sellsword in Essos. He truly seems like a dothraki in spirit😂

Robert could remember the first man he killed, but not the woman he loved. Poetic character.

This scene always has a deep meaning to me and it carries a sorrow that makes me tear up everytimw i watch it

Gods the writing was strong then.

Im glad Ned never told Robert that Lyanna loved Rhaegar and not him. What tangled webs we weave.

Cersei did think Robert was handsome when he was young because he was and Cersei did get pregnant with but she got rid of baby as soon as she find out in books

"It doesn't make me feel anything" still the most realest line said everrr ..

Robert didn’t love Lyanna, he loved the idea of Lyanna

We lost these conversations at house of dragons

If robert has said "its time, im going to prepare the boy to rule. I plan to give up the throne soon" he wouldve lived

Why watching this a decade later does it bring tears to my eyes? It never did the first 2-3 times I saw this scene but for some reason now it does

One of the best dialogue ever scripted!

Imagine if the stillborn 1st born boy, true son of Baratheon, somehow ended up north of the wall and grew up under the Night King. The Undead Prince of cosmic consequences.

The fact that after 17 years and all the women Robert was unfaithful with. The both know exactly Who are they both talking about when Cersei asks "What was SHE like? "

After house of the Dragon we need a Roberts rebellion series

Man telling this to your wife, it’s fucked up

I find it beautiful that Robert’s son and Arya, who very much was like Lyanna, did have feelings for eachother.

One of the best scenes in the whole show. I miss these scenes

Mark Addy's scriptwriter knew he only had one season, so they made sure every word was heavy and dense.

Sometimes guys we have to learn this lesson the hard way like Robert, the woman you love more than anything may want something else, something so very diffent to her yet similar at heart, and unfortunately Robert wasn’t that.

Someone: Did the showrunners really screwed season 8 and the Game of Thrones ending? Me: You want to know the horrible truth? I can't even remember what was season 8 like. All I know is that a great ending was all I ever wanted. Someone took it away from me, and seven seasons couldn't fill the hole they left behind.