It’s ironic actually. As the series went on, people missed his “firm hand” as King. Meaning they liked him because he was funny and solved all his problems with violence.
The only person really missing him was the teenage mother of one of his bastards in the brothel and she know him for few minutes where he raped her.
The rest, what they missed was the peace because they thought someone like Robert would defend them from the Mountain or Hoat and their merry bands of murderers (despite everything started because he couldn’t). Brotherhood Without Banners is funny example - they claie they are “King’s Men”, but they despised Robert too and not accepted any of his legal sucessors, be it Joffrey or Stannis - some nice ideological purity here, anarcho-monarchism in action.
Even Aerys was more beloved than Robert, because the big implication is that he was only the Mad King to the nobles. The smallfolk and all the normal people did nothing but benefit from his rule. Shockingly based.
Well he did tried to burn the city and that wasn’t just Jaime excuse since they did later found the wildfire stashes.
Except that his madness touched rather the nobles around him (note there weren’t any stories of him abusing the servants, though i would assume that did happened a lot, just people telling us Mad King horror stories were aristocrats too and servants were below their attention). Except that, even when he was desdending into madness his choice of people ruling as Hand in his stead was not bad (again except the alchemist at the very end).
Overall his reign ended with civil war too, although it was much faster and thus less bloody than the one after Robert death, and the biggest atrocity then was the sacking of King’s Landing by westerners (sounds kinda familiar, huh)
It’s ironic actually. As the series went on, people missed his “firm hand” as King. Meaning they liked him because he was funny and solved all his problems with violence.
The only person really missing him was the teenage mother of one of his bastards in the brothel and she know him for few minutes where he raped her.
The rest, what they missed was the peace because they thought someone like Robert would defend them from the Mountain or Hoat and their merry bands of murderers (despite everything started because he couldn’t). Brotherhood Without Banners is funny example - they claie they are “King’s Men”, but they despised Robert too and not accepted any of his legal sucessors, be it Joffrey or Stannis - some nice ideological purity here, anarcho-monarchism in action.
Even Aerys was more beloved than Robert, because the big implication is that he was only the Mad King to the nobles. The smallfolk and all the normal people did nothing but benefit from his rule. Shockingly based.
Well he did tried to burn the city and that wasn’t just Jaime excuse since they did later found the wildfire stashes.
Except that his madness touched rather the nobles around him (note there weren’t any stories of him abusing the servants, though i would assume that did happened a lot, just people telling us Mad King horror stories were aristocrats too and servants were below their attention). Except that, even when he was desdending into madness his choice of people ruling as Hand in his stead was not bad (again except the alchemist at the very end).
Overall his reign ended with civil war too, although it was much faster and thus less bloody than the one after Robert death, and the biggest atrocity then was the sacking of King’s Landing by westerners (sounds kinda familiar, huh)
Indeed it does.