Originally Posted by Thrombin:
“My thoughts on the Aaron situation is that I tend to go by what I see rather than what other people say. What I've seen of Aaron has shown a somewhat insecure and socially awkward guy who is not good at opening up with his real feelings but nevertheless has a highly developed (if not overdeveloped) sense of morality and manners. I think he has a lot of faults in the way he treats people sometimes but, is basically well intentioned. I think he is smart, extremely funny and, at times, quite endearing and I think he has fallen for Faye far more than he is comfortable admitting to all and sundry on live TV.
I also think that Faye is well aware of all this and is not taking these things to heart anywhere near as much as people are worrying she will. She trusts her feelings.
For me, there are still a lot of mysteries surrounding Aaron but nothing so bad that I'm not willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.”
I agree with this. I think in some ways Aaron has almost surprised himself by how badly he's fallen for the girl. I really don't think he went into the house looking to get into a long term relationship. It just sort of happened that he met the girl of his dreams in Faye and fell for her. Hard. I don't think he has actually declared his love for her to anyone other than Faye herself.
During the course of the series, he's had 100 excuses to drop her, and nobody would have batted an eyelid if he had. If anything, she has probably had a negative effect in his popularity. Look back at the second time he was up for eviction, with the classic Heaven moment. He was not only saved first, but was cheered massively, and even had his name chanted. He was not in a relationship with Faye back then. Once he took the leap, he began to get boos and the like.
Despite all this, he has stuck with her the whole way through.
You can nitpick all you want about his lack of tears on her eviction, his lack of mentions of her since she's left, his picking of Harry above her, or whatever have you. I just struggle to think how on Earth Faye would have fit into any sort of winning 'gameplan' he may to progress in this game.
I really think he deserves the benefit of the doubt in this. I really do. Anything other than this being real just doesn't add up.