But then compare the prevalence of Teyla's, Ronon's, and Ford's storylines with Sheppard's or McKay's (since all five examples are on SGA-1) or Teal'c's storylines with Jack's, Daniel's, or even Sam's in SG-1 (since they are all members of SG-1). There isn't any comparison.
Sure, in comparison to reoccurring guest characters like Radek Zelenka and Janet Fraiser or General Hammond they have plenty of screentime and more billing. But when Carson Beckett gets more speaking lines than a main, credit-billed character of the cast -- who was certainly never defined as laconic as a character -- even though he's only in half the episodes of S1? Yeah. What's up with that?
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Sure, in comparison to reoccurring guest characters like Radek Zelenka and Janet Fraiser or General Hammond they have plenty of screentime and more billing. But when Carson Beckett gets more speaking lines than a main, credit-billed character of the cast -- who was certainly never defined as laconic as a character -- even though he's only in half the episodes of S1? Yeah. What's up with that?
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