I liked the original Austin (Patrick Muldoon). I hated the replacement. Patrick’s Austin had more class – playing the piano, in grad school, etc. I also felt that he had more chemistry with Christie Clarke than his replacement who seemed to go better with Ali S.’s Sami. He also fell for every trick Sami pulled but expected Carrie to support him constantly. Sorry but she deserved better than playing second place to Sami. When Mike came on there was just some fantastic chemistry with Carrie but unfortunately it got dumped by the new writers.