Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-32061950-20170526200825/@comment-28149560-20170527212753

JCB95 wrote: Zaeiria wrote: Wellsworth96 wrote: Zaeiria wrote: Wellsworth96 wrote: Zaeiria wrote: Echo isn't going to be a main character, she will be a series regular. They are two different things. Harper and Miller were promoted series regulars in season 4, but Roan was the only new main character.

But I do hope that Harper will be a main character in season 5, since she's my favourite, but we'll see... She's said she'll be a main. Echo.

Where? None of the news articles or Tasya's tweets have said anything about being a main, only about a series regular. Series Regular means a main. Those articles about Harper and Nathan were reported by fansites. TV Guide is a very reliable.

Chelsey herself confirmed it, for example in this: http://www.hypable.com/the-100-season-4-chelsey-reist-interview-harper-marper/

But I guess we'll see, whether or not she is indeed a main or still a recurring character with more screen time (what I still think is the case), when the next season starts. There is a difference between a main character and a series regular. In the walking dead there is almost 20 series regular characters, yet only 12 appear as main characters in the opening sequence. I don't really know the difference but from what I understand a series regular appears more consistently throughout the season, whereas a recurring character like Jackson just appears here and there throughout the season. For me a series regular just means they will appear more often, but not be a main character.

There is indeed a difference.

What series regular mean, what I've read, is that the show promises a certain number of episodes to the actor, where the character appear for sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they have a big part of the story itself. Like with Miller, even though he didn't have a lot of important scenes, he appeared in most of the episodes.

A main characters on the other hand have a huge part in the plot almost everytime they appear in an episode.

So I don't think that Echo even is a main character in the next season, because then they would have mentioned the words "main character" even once, instead of a series regular.