User blog comment:Gogogadget831/Every Episode of Total Drama Reviewed: Episode 12 - Basic Straining/@comment-4742462-20150630163411/@comment-4742462-20150630172206

@ArtDraw12, But in this season he actually wasn't a writer's pet, it's only afterwards that he became the pet. Plus, this was the only season where I felt like he deserved to make it as far as he did even if in actuality he didn't really play a truly critical part in the rest of the season.

Either way, it still would've been better than just continuing the number of eliminations this season that made no sense when you stopped to think about it.