You actually inadvertently outlined why I think the Blake/AM scenes work for me with Liz. The exes who still have a connection works with the recast with the softer chemistry, and it has a lived in feel to the dynamic that I like. Granted I watched out of order, but I completely bought from their first scene that they had a history even if the actors didn't. I feel like in the scenes with Ross since that's the A plot with Blake that Liz is trying to act like Sherry and the writing is trying to keep the Ross/Blake dynamic roughly the same at first, but Liz could do more her own interpretation of Blake in the AM scenes that feels more natural in those early months.
I actually think Blake/Ross becoming a stable couple had a pretty big butterfly effect on the show that's not just the recast. For all intents and purposes, Blake basically chooses Ross over Roger. It also takes her out of the Spaulding orbit even though they built up a lot of history there. They really had no idea what to do with Roger for Zas's last couple of years, and the Roger vs the Spaulding family loses something when Blake doesn't have some sort of alliance with one of the Spaulding men. (I think one thing to have done was have Blake immediately come clean with Ross about the night with AM and he forgives her since she's actually being honest and he had broken up with her first, then it turns out she's pregnant with AM's baby a month or so after that after Ross is pretty fully committed.).
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