I'm not sure, but I feel like I read somewhere it was a bit of a chain reaction. It seems like the angel being there for Lucy was the original plan, but then RH left which was a big reason SS left so they just had AM/Lucy heavily backburnered before leaving together. RH had talked on his Locher Room interview about things not being the same (and seems to have really great fondness for the show) and the not liking what the new producers had in store. I'm guessing being one of many bickering Spauldings in a story that circled around Phillip probably wasn't all that appealing either. What's funny is Rick seems to like working with Justin Deas-I got the impression he actually liked the Cooper scenes better than the Spaulding scenes by the end. He clearly loved working with Zas and Bev too. Yeah, AM/Lucy 1 was odd in general because they had her pretty clearly there for him but they got rid of any dramatic stakes with all the Coopers more or less forgiving him early so it was just them going on romcom style dates with no real direction. I don't know if it was actually this well planned, but I did like how it turned out because they did establish her as someone he actually respected at work (all things Spaulding require suspension of disbelief haha) and that she wasn't just some girl mooning over him willing to take whatever scraps anymore. I feel like Tangie was there to not have him go straight to Lucy from Eleni and to make sure there was friction with Alan. This is actually where I kept expecting Blake to come in since she was doing random detective work around Tangie's "mystery man"-I kept wanting Blake to discover AM was there and take shifts caring for him while lying to Ross (since Blake was also afraid of Alan then as well so it would've dovetailed pretty nicely). Holly probably then would've figured it out but also kept the secret while warning Blake it was a bad idea as per usual haha. While it was actually a sign of growth for Blake (before regressing, sigh) at the time, part of me would've liked Blake to go show up at the yacht rather than go to the boarding house when she briefly left Ross over Dinah. They moved to the bland Eleni recast being his confidant, but I always enjoyed Liz Kiefer and Rick Hearst's chemistry. There was a lived in affection and familiarity which was interesting given that they never were a couple onscreen.
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