Who wins between Aras and Cirie in the final 2? Would Aras still beat Terry in the final 2?

For someone who was the youngest member of the Casaya 6, it's a bit surprising that Aras was arguably the one most responsible for holding them together. He was mature beyond his years, as his only real bad moment of the season in my view was his slandering Terry, but I applaud him for apologizing for it in a mature way. And by the end, Terry was happy to give Aras a million dollars.

“You’re a good kid. You’re striving to do the right thing. But we can not judge people based on their intentions.” I was 7 years old when I heard this and it stuck with me.

I love Aras so much. His and Cirie's ability to keep the lunatics together is actually unparalleled. One point of note that I never see people bring up is how many of the show's moments are the other castaways voicing their frustrations to Aras and Cirie. In that one scene where Shane is complaining about Danielle and Cirie after the reward - he's talking to Aras. Courtney vents her frustrations about Shane on the beach to Cirie. The two of them were sound boards, able to keep the alliance together through mediation and sanity. It really goes to show how much good credit the two of them had, that they managed to get so far in the game. Aras had a good shot at winning Blood vs. Water, too, if it wasn't for Tyson. Definitely one of the most underrated winners.

Sorry, but Aras was right in the loved ones argument with Terry. Yeah, he could have let it go, but Terry didn't have to rationalize not picking Danielle by saying, "It was just her mom". At that point, everyone has been away from their loved ones, and it's incredibly rude to act like those who brought a spouse or their kid are more deserving. As the challenge winner, it was Terry's choice, but his reasoning was flimsy and didn't need to be verbalized. I always appreciated Aras for standing up to that.

the one and only time I got the winner correctly from day 1. Aras just naturally appealed to me his name his youth & enthusiasm as well as his calmness ha. his rivalry with Terry as well as his close bond with Cirie is what I usually remember from Exile Island. at time I didn't realize how insane Casaya really was I thought that was normal for a Survivor cast lol...

I wonder how the season would have gone if Aras was placed on La mina instead and one of the other younger guys like Nick or Austin was on Casaya.

I really like how you did the music for this one

One of my favorite winners and I’m completely aware that he was just the right amount of AVERAGE in EVERYTHING but I really loved him and idky. I was rooting for him more than Terry, weird I know

He deserved to win as one of the few sane members of casaya 😭😭😭

Definitely one of my favorite winners! I even used his avatar in our Survivor Online Reality Game and won the season. ARAS deserved to win this season. He is in my Top 10 winners with Amber, Boston Rob, Erika, Parvati, Sandra, Tony…

RESPECT FOR MY MAN ARAS ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 Dude is a real G

I always enjoyed Aras, both of his times on the show. He's not a big character or top winner or anything, he's kinda just a natural, chill guy. A good audience surrogate. Plus, I didn't like Terry the first time I watched Panama, so that automatically gave Aras some points.

Aras is the second best in everything. He is not the most 'socially' strategic. He is not the challenge beast but he wins an immunity at the right time until he makes it to the top with a little assistance made by Danielle.

One of the most underrated winners ever

Keeping caasaya together was probably a bigger achievement than winning the game.

this season is filled with lots of drama if u love drama this is a season you gotta watch

I was rooting for Cirie and Aras this season.

I am super pleased Aras won Season 12. I was rooting for him or Cirie to win. Aras is one of the most charming winners on Survivor and has an endearing friendship with Cirie.

A really funny thing about the vote that took out Courtney: it was the _best_ move he, specifically, made (and it ultimately fueled the others). His immunity win at the Final Four forced the conditions at that particular Tribal Council and led to the fire-making tie-breaker.

Love Aras ,Nick next pls

Such an odd season but i love it aras while not exciting is very fitting

Aras was 200% in the right about the loved ones argument. To me, it’s very similar to when people try to say “well I have kids, I should get this privilege”- it’s not the rest of the world’s fault that you made children. It’s not Aras’ fault that his mom was his loved one? Like what if he had a wife and she was busy, so his mom came instead; (I know that’s not how it actually went down but say it was) should Aras automatically lose the reward because his mom showed up? No. That doesn’t make any sense to me. Terry might have been a beast in the challenges, but he was so insufferable to watch everywhere else. He thought he was better than everyone else in that tribe and he made very little effort to hide that imo. I was so happy it was Aras who walked away with the million dollar check.

I don’t even know how to pronounce his last name lol so that 10 times fast challenge is gonna be hard for me

I loved Arias and funny enough Fabio.

please make a video on joe anglim and one on parvati

Im still upset, shooked and not well every time i see this final 4 fire making challenge. Cirie deserved to be in the final 3 over Danielle

NICE

27:25 no? Cirie gets up and makes fire on her own, Aras is half asleep when she does so…

:-)

All 300lbs of her 😂😂😂😂😂

Kasaya was a HOT mess like a car accident you can’t stop watching. Glad we got Cirie out of that group though. Love her. Kind of wish Aras was on WAW just to see if he could have fit in with the new schoolers

I like Vytas more

Ugh what a useless final immunity challenge

I'm definitely in the minority here, but I was extremely disappointed he won. In my eyes, Terry deserved the victory 100% and Aras was kinda whiny. But I guess people liked him, idk why

Terry deserve to win tbh

I hated Terry. So glad Aras won.

very boring and forgettable winner in my opinion

He was largely responsible for turning 'Panama: Exile Island' into a popularity contest like 'Nicaragua'. That season had the same problem that this one had. Dividing the tribes up by age at the start badly impacted the game. Someone hit the nail on the head in videos from 'Oz the Great and Powerful'. When Mila Kunis called James Franco's character, "nothing but a deceitful, selfish, and extremely mortal man", those words do describe Aras perfectly. He is a forgettable and unlikeable winner. Also, what he did to Melinda Hyder in episode 2 was like what Jamie Newton did to the people on the outs during the merge episode of 'Guatemala'. He wasn't showing class and neither was Aras. At least Jamie admitted that what he did was wrong and got his comeuppance for it. Aras never got his. Pure simple his win was a fluke. Someone with 9 votes cast against him prior to the final tribal council isn't deserving. The final immunity challenge was also completely unfair to Terry Deitz, who had a 0% chance of winning it. Aras and Danielle were the worst final two since Brian and Clay of 'Thailand'. Neither one of them had any reason to be brought back for future seasons. If any good came from their returns, it's that their torches were finally snuffed when that should've happened in their initial season.