Yeah, this is my thinking. Couples that have more natural external conflict can actually be your better long-term couples in a soap IMO because you don’t have to jump through a bunch of crazy hoops to create drama. (See Reva/Josh.) Just the grandfather drama alone between Roger/Alan and the kid’s chosen grandfather Ed is interesting-and Ed/Holly/Roger basically sharing a grandkid? (I know Ed is not the actual grandfather but given his father figure role to both AM/Blake he’d be a de facto grandpa-if Ed/Holly started acting like primary grandparents together it would make Roger apoplectic.)
I know I’m in in the minority, and this probably comes from viewing Liz’s Blake first, but I think Liz/Rick had potential chemistry to be a long-term romantic pairing. There was a lot of mutual affection in their scenes of two people who know each other well/get each other with the little underlying resentment from the past simmering up here and there.
I’d have put them on some path to grow closer as friends who still have a spark-of course my unwritten fan fiction forever is AM working for Roger as his heir apparent alongside Blake. I know AM had lots of reason to hate Roger but Roger also understands AM’s motivations far better than his own family. (Maybe Hart decides he actually wants part of it but AM is now the son Roger always wanted and AM is the Phillip to Hart’s AM in that dynamic.)
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