Yes, I think that is correct. After the strike ended and Long asked who Blake was talking to on the phone, no one could answer. So she wrote the reveal that Blake was spying for Alan at Spaulding, and they had the flashback (barf) where she seduced him when he was exiled in Mexico after Phillip took over Spaulding.
This was around October 1988, so I'm not sure if they had already decided she would be Christina. Based on when Zaslow started appearing on screen, it had to be sometime during the autumn of 1988 when they asked him to return as Alan and he countered by offering to come back as Roger. Then Long had retcon some stuff. It's obvious Blake didn't know her father was still alive, so the motive became that she wanted his place at Spaulding, while at first it seemed the motive was simply that she was ambitious. Or, they HAD decided it, but held back the reveal a little, just making Blake seem like Alan's little minion.
As usual, it's difficult to completely piece it together because of missing episodes.
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I just remembered something: after the reveal that Alan and Blake were in cahoots, Alex confronted Blake and told her she knew about her past and who her father was. I don't think they had mentioned Roger's name yet, but that indicates that they HAD made the decision to make her Christina already.
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