The way they treat Liz is terrible. And although Monty deserves plenty of blame for marginalizing those characters, she inherited people that TPTB before her ran through the wringer and didn’t set up for futures.
It’s not her fault Lesley couldn’t have more kids, that Scotty didn’t have a sibling, that Jessie had no surviving children, and that Steve and Audrey didn’t get to have more kids beyond Steve adopting Tommy. When you take that all together they really didn’t prepare their leads for aging and a future like other shows did. And nobody had the Eileen Fulton clause to not make them grandparents for a long time as an excuse.
If anything she clearly did try to set Lesley up with more family with Amy, Blackie and Mike. She could have recast Jeff, but by that point she didn’t really do that anymore in her first run. Heather was only recast because Mary O’Brien wouldn’t return to wrap up the Steven Lars story. Robin Mattson was there to kill Diana and wrap that story up. But Monty liked her and they decided to change course.
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