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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 428475" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>We also have to keep in mind that the show has always been reluctant to give Becky Herbst (Elizabeth) front-burner status in the way other long-tenured female cast members are given.  Even plotlines designed to showcase Herbst end up being hijacked by other actors/characters.  She has a history of being given the equivalent of table scraps for years and years, and this lack of writing extended to her kids because...well, you can't separate them.  Liz's sons were perfect angels because if they acted out too much (killed people, went to prison, became WSB spies, etc.), the show might have to write for their mother!</p></blockquote><p></p>