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1. 2018: soooo most of my favorite robron moments do not take place in 2018, but I’m putting it first for its sheer consistency. 2018 doesn’t have any months or SLs that I find it hard to rewatch, and I think it’s just such a lovely year to go INHABIT. They are so solid, so united against the various things thrown at them, and we get to see their relationship at the healthiest it’s ever been. Again… my highest robron highs live elsewhere but this year is SOLID and still contains reunion 2.0, proposal 2.0, wedding 2.0.

2. 2016: The only reason this year doesn’t take first place for me is because of the “Robron chill” in the summer. When I watched this in real time I was SO GRUMPY and even upon rewatch there are scenes I skip from that summer. BUT my god spring of 2016 was so beautiful and SSW2016 is still some of the best robron content ever. There are lots of small, quiet faves tucked away in this year too: “give it up, I know you too well” 🥲

3. 2017: ok so like… 2017 has some absolute bangers and I think it contains most of my favorite robron scenes. the lead up to aaron going to prison might be my favorite robron content EVER. Wedding 1.0, the goodbye hug, the reunion hug, the post-prison episode, the affair reveal. And there are even some real gems from when they were broken up. But it cannot be denied that this is the year I quit watching and there are still some parts of this year I struggle to rewatch. Not to mention… the ONS. People say they remember where they were when a huge, world-changing event happens? I remember where I was and what I was doing the night of the ONS. 2017 was brutal. but it still gets to be 3rd bc the highs were insanely high.

4. 2025: the year we got farmbert, robert ptsd, robert’s breakdown, the gorge, and our boys back together 💕 I honestly contemplated putting this one last bc they were only in half the year and the writing was… inconsistent. But there were so many amazing soft, romantic scenes and so many moments that felt tailor-made for me and my shipping needs. It was also a great time to be a Robert fan in particular. The reason i considered putting it last was bc… sometimes I felt like we were watching the writers editing their storylines in real time 💀 like something would happen and they’d just hit ctrl+z a few weeks later. And as much as I loved watching Robert pine for Aaron I also hated watching Aaron choose John over him. I know there were reasons!!!!! But it caused me pain kajsjdhaja. I went on a journey with Kev but I don’t necessarily feel like the writing for that was great either. Idk… if I had to articulate why the writing was inconsistent I think it would be that… character motivations and character beliefs felt like they changed at the whim of the writers without there always being a clear reason. This is soap so that’s always going to be the case to some extent but in 2025… it felt especially so. BUT ranking it fourth because it just still feels like a miracle that we’re here at all and it’s currently fourth in my heart.

5. 2019: big caveat that I didn’t watch this year in real time and I could see it being extremely frustrating if I had because robron didn’t kiss for months, were offscreen a lot, and then obviously it all came crashing down. but I love the surrogacy storyline, how disgustingly domestic they were, and then as sad as it was I can’t imagine a more romantic, tragic, emotional way of splitting up a couple. They were ripped apart from each other and it destroyed both of them! They did everything they could to stay together! Aaron fell completely the fuck apart because Robert was his everything!! Everything about Robert’s departure really honored them as a couple imo. I don’t love rewatching some of the buildup to him killing Lee because robert was so stuck in his rage and aaron just could not get through to him…. but I still think their angst this year was mostly good angst. The biggest complaint for me would just be the amount of time they were on screen and a bit of whiplash in tone going between storylines leading up to Robert’s departure. Plus quite limited affection. But the emotional intimacy was mostly 👌

6. 2014/2015: we owe everything to affair era robron and I will always love it. But this is the era I rewatch the least? It was EXCEPTIONALLY good television, but once ED gave me official!robron in 2016 I just found myself going back to the affair less and less. It obviously has some of the very very best content in terms of their physical chemistry (god can you believe we used to get them like… making out… on a regular basis) but after the affair reveal there was a lot of downtime for them the second half of the year. But honestly i recently started an affair rewatch and was kind of stunned by how absolutely in love they were so early… idk man there’s no bad robron years. I even love the scrapyard scene bc im a monster. Idk! I don’t want to put anything last!! This is only last bc I have spent the least time ~studying~ it I need to do a full rewatch again to better rank it

Bonus: if I were to rank them solely on what I feel like was the quality of the writing and the vision for long term storytelling:

1. 2014/2015

2. 2017

3. 2016

4. 2018

5. 2019

6. 2025