Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-14066471-20140114172238/@comment-10280603-20140114223903

DManCO wrote: LadyX wrote: Good point, I wasn't factoring in actual screen time, just sheer number. So, instead of having 'the token black guy' we have the 'token homosexual' now?...crap...that just reminded me we don't have a token black guy anymore, we need to replace Boyd, quick!

Except for Harris, who is gone now, Danny is the only extra that actually had any sort of screen time isn't he? Or is Chris considered an extra?

Anyway, I really like Danny, and hope he gets some development, next Darach or not...ok I hope he isn't evil, I don't want to start disliking him, and he just doesn't have that bad boy/evil sexy thing going for him.

Someone once did a tally and came up with 12 minutes as the total amount of screen time that Danny had appeared in both seasons one and two. I don't know how much that increased in 3a, as I don't have leisure time to rewatch and count. But I don't believe that it was that much in total.

In terms of sheer number of lines, I think that Coach Finstock and Victoria Argent are ahead of Danny. So were Boyd and Erica. Chris is a secondary character, not an extra (and has a LOT more screen time and lines than Danny).

The weird part is that Danny is a fan favorite character, but Jeff does nothing to develop him. Hence the allegations of gay baiting. The show has a diversity problem generally, but this one is particularly glaring. At least Boyd got a storyline. Idk the only reason i haven't read to much into this is that Danny was always supposed to be just a filler character just one of the extra friends they had at school. He was never a friend of the man characters until they joined the lacross team and then Jackson left which was he's main tie to the story. He was really only suppose to be there for comic relief. They actually gave him a much bigger role than i had anticipated in 3A