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Robert Strong's identity gets the Preston Jacobs treatment

His only new upload questions a familiar Westeros assumption, while the A Clash of Kings reread keeps drawing viewers.

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Could Robert Strong Not Be Gregor Clegane

"Could Robert Strong Not Be Gregor Clegane" takes a connection many readers regard as settled and puts a question mark beside it. Preston Jacobs's only new upload of the week returns to George R.R. Martin's books, where Cersei's imposing, silent protector leaves rather more room for speculation than his television counterpart.

The discussion has reached about 20,000 views in two days. In the comments, viewers are doing some theorizing of their own: proposing alternative identities, debating the stone giant in Bran's dream, and asking whether a prophecy might acquire a different meaning as Martin's story develops. Others take the premise somewhere sillier, imagining several small occupants inside one enormous suit of armor.

The new upload is comfortably the channel's busiest video right now. Behind it, both installments of the A Clash of Kings prologue reread continue to attract views, giving readers a more methodical return to the text alongside the larger speculative question.

Across the channel, the week brought roughly 82,000 views and an unchanged subscriber count. Daily viewing is currently below its usual level. For friendly book-channel context, frankie's shelf had a growing subscriber audience this week, while Tolkien Untangled also finished with its subscriber count unchanged.

Jacobs's enduring attractions remain distinctly investigative: his older Tower of Joy and Littlefinger debt-scheme videos are among the channel's most-watched uploads. Robert Strong fits neatly into that habit of treating an apparently answered question as an invitation to look again.

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What viewers say

Finally, a deep dive into Glidus’ “Robert Strong is just a new guy” theory.
@biollanteazulSee it on YouTube
As a longtime fan of both Trey and Preston, seeing them each week talk about stuff I love is an absolute joy
@DaneBoxSee it on YouTube
A Robert Strong POV in Winds would be nice. Preston, make it happen 😅
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My preferred outcome for the "is it really The Mountains head?" plotline is that it is used as a device to reveal Ser Strong has been "living" headless or has another head grafted on or something. Like a proper Frankenstein. Although I do think it would be deeply funny if Ser Strong were just a large and strange albeit ordinary knight.
@GoodVolitionSee it on YouTube
Not sure if I missed you mentioning it, but Ilyn Payne has to be in contention for the stone giant.

At least originally, he fits there in both a contemporary and prophetic sense.

He looms over their stories thanks to the execution, but I feel like he's one of those who had their role trimmed down by gardening over time.
@jbailey5061See it on YouTube

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