User blog comment:SlasherNL/Liara, Bioware's chioce?/@comment-4950455-20120503203148

Honestly? I've seen a lot of people talk about this, but I've never really seen it myself. In ME1, certainly, I always felt like Liara was the "secondary" LI, with the one most players were assumed to have being whichever of Ashley/Kaidan was the opposite sex. In ME2 without LotSB, she's basically demoted to extra, and while I agree that her romance scenes in LotSB were phenomenal, I'd argue that's less because of special favoritism from Bioware and more just the overall high quality of the entire DLC.

And then, ME3. Certainly she gets far and away the most screentime of any possible LI, but to say that she's favored misses what I think was one of the less-discussed problems with the game: the general comparative "shallowness" of the romances. If Liara was really the "favorite" of Bioware, I somehow think they would have given her a more in-depth romance then they did.

So, no, I don't really think this is the case. I do think she gets a lot of "screentime", as I said, but there's other reasons for that then favoritism.