I think they were on an equal footing, they were just different. They made a great partnership, "Holmes & Watson" as Harry himself had said. As in one was the brilliant minded genius (Coop) and the other had to pay more attention to the more mundane aspects of things as well as pay attention to the rest of what was happening in the station, where he was still needed. (Harry.)
Anyway back on topic.
Sorry, but I disagree with the comments about both Sarah Palmer and Sylvia Horne. From what little we DID see of Sylvia, she seemed to just be boring, argumentative and have no backbone, trying to be the dutiful housewife when it was blatantly obvious that wasn't who she was at all. She only ever had converstaions with her family too. I don't know, she just seemed a bit one-dimensional to me. Which I think was the point of her character.
As for Sarah, well, it's not entirely true we didn't see her again - she was in the final episode when she spoke to Major Briggs. the thing with Sarah was, when we saw her in that episode, she was (understandably) a completely nervous wreck. So would it have been worth showing more of her? Because all she would have been doing would have been grieving along for Leland and Laura and maybe getting the odd shot. I certainly don't think she is a boring character, just maybe she wouldn't have had much to say that was relevant to the latter part of series two and that could be why she was focused on less.
Now, my three I would have like to have seen more of.
1) Thomas Eckhardt - I am amazed he has not been mentioned yet. He was in so few episodes and yet was such a fantastic character. Yes, he was bad, but he was right up there with Windom Earle in the "evil" stakes. If he had stayed in Twin Peaks and not bothered with (or not been killed off by) Josie, it would have made a fascinating storyline if he had moved/stayed in the Peaks and made Catherine Martell's life a living hell to see how pissed off Andrew got, and especially if the two of them started their rivalry up again, it would have been brilliant to watch, definetly more so than the Marsh crap.
2) Definetly Ronnette Pulaski - In my view, she IS the Laura that lived, if that makes sense. When I first saw the Pilot Episode, I was sure she was going to be a regular character, and the fact she was such a brilliant actress and that wasn't used more seemed (and still does), such a waste to me. She was only in 4 episodes, and FWWM. Granted, she was in a coma for most of series one, so they couldn't use her then, but when she woke up, her flashbacks were so fascinating! Then she saw BoB, then could sort of half-talk and then we never see her again until the final episode where she seems almost fully recovered! So what I would have loved to have seen is just more about her in general. Like what led to her getting into the same bad habits as Laura, what kind of relationship she had with her family, who were her friends, how did she and Laura meet and most importantly, how did she recover so quickly in such a short period of time!
3)Hawk- Like the above two, I ALWAYS wanted to see more of Hawk. Like Ronette, it would have been great to see more scenes with Hawk as the main character, or taking his girlfriend Diane Shapiro on a date! He was just so cool and
I thought it absolutely stank that he spoke so little and when he did , he imparted the words of wisdom onto Coop and it always made him look like the smarter one when Hawk seemed to be the most "in the know" of all of them a lot of the time. Hawk's life outside of work interested me the most though.
"watch out for my cousin.."
