ALL: Legacy children who were undervalued or underdeveloped

[Liberty City]

They should cast Sarah Joy Brown as Jennifer Foster and just let her shine!

[Lye-C]

The twins Victor Kiriakis II and Joseph Kiriakis

Noel Curtis 

Sydney DiMera 

[DemetriKane]

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I totally agree with this. Both of Brooke's children were undervalued honestly. And it was such a shame to watch.

[greens_dupres]

Bridget Forrester, the show never seemed all that invested after JF’s departure even though she was central to the origin story of Hope and Deacon has remained part of the canvas, 

[AMCHistory]

…and we actually had a talented and charismatic actor with Micah Alberti. He was very “Tad Junior” in his swagger. The actor was polished, but it took so long to figure out what to do with Jamie that Micah was already Primetime bound by the time they figured it out. 
 

I love that Justin Bruening and Alexa Havins met on set, but in terms of acting chops the next Robert Redford he was not…

With Bianca Montgomery front and center for so many years on AMC, you have to wonder why the writers never gave her half-siblings Molly and Mathew a meaningful storyline. Both had so many roots on campus. They were clean slates that the writers could have taken anywhere. And because their parents were not related to everyone, they were ripe for romantic pairings across the canvas. 
 

Molly’s cancer and Matt’s conception storyline was such a big storyline on the show. It would have been nice to see it come full circle by seeing what happens in a sibling relationship like that. 

[Michael]

I had totally forgotten that they brought on Matthew as Sean in the mid-2000s. I can't remember a damn thing of consequence he ever did, though.

[MichaelGL]

Guiding Light 

Ben Reade undervalued

Shayne Lewis undervalued. Every time we got a recast it was like a different character compared to the last. 

Samantha Marler undervalued/underdeveloped. Pretty crazy how we never heard from her again after her departure in the early 90s.

India took in a kid by the name of Dorie, and India returned three times after her departure in the 80s, and Dorie was never mentioned. Could've been India's Achilles heel of sorts when it came to India's involvement the Spaulding corporate drama over the years. 

Matthew Evans was Amanda Spaulding's younger brother (his parents Jennifer and Mark Evans) and could have mixed it up with Michelle Bauer/Ben Reade/Billy Lewis.

Emily Norris was the daughter of Ken Norris and Janet Mason. Ken returned in the late 90s, but the show of course had no interest at the time in it's history. Emily would've added to the Holly/Blake/Roger/Ed dynamic. 

William "Billy" Fletcher son of Peggy Scott; instead of introducing Hart Jessupt/Laura Jessup as part of Roger's history would've been quite nice to have Peggy's son return and increasingly become like a surrogate son to Roger with Blake growing jealous while on the outs with Roger. 

Andy Norris was written off and sent to jail after blackmailing the residents of Springfield; but I think the show should've brought him back at some point down the road to continue being a headache for both the Spaulding and Lewis families(Andy's history with Trish/his history with Alan).

 

[SamandWillowFan]

Was Sean Matthew?

[AMCOLTLLover]

Jeff Webber‘s daughters besides Liz

[AMCHistory]

My favourite version was the one that had hot homoerotic chemistry with his fake brother Sandy. 

[Planet Soap]

 

Yep to everyone who said Y&R. To their credit and detriment,they never abandoned veteran characters for younger ones. This also resulted in an underdeveloped new generation to take the manual, or be invested in. The younger charachters up until the Nick & Sharon era stuck. Everyone after that except maybe Billy fell off. Abby, Devon & Lilly aren't that interesting. Cassie and Colleen were killed off for no reason. Moses, Reed, Faith, etc are nowhere to be seen.

Edited January 11, 2024 by Planet Soap

[Michael]

I believe so, yeah.