User blog comment:LuluTDFan/Who is the most overrated contestant?/@comment-24042891-20131221165833/@comment-24971793-20140622163447

I don't see how Dakota is a writer's pet, Sam is the writer's pet. Trying to appeal to gamers and cash in on the success of geek actors like Jonah Hill that are popular at this moment. Even putting him in the All Stars season. Dakota just served to give Sam a nice plot and every gamer's dream => a hot girlfriend. Dakota got tortured the most out of any contestant (for no apparant reason, not even comic relief. It was never funny). No contestant liked her and Chris hated her, she got eliminated early (twice), got bald and transformed into a monster. Which makes her unusable for future seasons, unless perhaps in a cameo or if they'll turn her back to normal.

I agree with all the others though, Harold and Leshawna are also writers pets. I believe I read somewhere that LeShawna and Harold where planned to make cameo's in TDROTI. I would also add Lightning to the writer's pets list. I've got a feeling he will be back in a future season, his appearance in All Stars seemed like build up for a future season.