How _dare_ you educate me on the toxicity of one of my favorite ships and make me look at it from an *adult* perspective instead of letting me go with the "ignorance is bliss" flow!!🤣

they only kept Mason cause he was British, hot and messy. Dean had too much chemistry and was too much of a good solid boyfriend which provided no drama lol

28:12 the moment where Dean’s friends are like “should we look?” and Dean says “no” so they all cover their eyes was just so cute i can’t believe i ever thought mason was better than dean

I can’t believe Alex even thought of getting back together with Mason after he ate Dean. Like I’m sorry but if you EAT someone I care about just out of jealousy you are out of my life forever

Can we just talk about how supportive Dean's friends are?

I love the fact that Dean says “I thought you guys broke up”, like hey I didn’t mean to steal anyone's girlfriend.

You just made me realize that Alex and Mason only had one kiss, which is very surprising

Miscommunication and love triangles are the worst and most annoying tropes ever.

Oh my god Dean is waaaaaaay more romantic than mason! Like, when Alex looked all dirty (trying to get him to break up) he thought it was from depression and didn’t hesitate to try and help her! I can’t believe younger me didn’t like him that much… it was a way cuter relationship

The part where Alex is crying and being comforted by her mum, Selena said she was going through a breakup at this time and just allowed herself to be sad over it for this performance and I think you can really tell

Alex should have had Juliette put the necklace on mason. Then we know if he really telling the truth lol

something about the way Dean calls her Russo most of the time is soo 😭😭😭😍

I was so much more heartbroken that Juliet turned old than Mason going full wolf.

Less than 5 minutes into the vid, but going over how they met makes me realize how much I missed "Artist Alex" in the second half of the series 😢. It gets a bit swept under the rug cuz obviously they had a lot more focus and lead up to the Family Wizard Competition, which was interesting, but still- that part of her character sorta falls to the wayside

I’ve actually never realized how much better her and Dean were together. They had the chemistry and the communication (which yes Mason and Alex had chemistry but like very little in common) and the banter is so solid! I feel like it’s a relationship I really overlooked when first watching this show

I wish there was more context for Dean's back story. When they were in the car he said "my uncle raised me with manners" not "my dad" which I thought was really interesting.

I hated Mason throughout the show. I thought they were cute in his first episode but between being wayyyy too old for Alex, telling Juliet he loved her, attacking Justin and Juliet for no reason, swallowing Dean whole, ruining Alex's award ceremony out of jealousy over something stupid, being incredibly passive aggressive at her once they're broken up, refusing to respect even the most basic boundaries, trying to "open her heart" with Harper's training wand which is basically the equivalent of trying to roofie her with a love potion, and last but not least pushing a man off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to his death for showing interest in Alex, I gotta say he is the worst Disney boyfriend of all.

“Due to the elevator being broken, Mr Lariatate turns into a zombie.” I’m gonna need HELLA more context to that sentence.

Okay but Mason doesn’t look like a human when he’s wolfed up. I am shocked that nobody was concerned that Mason being out in public would expose werewolves to the mortal world

I kind of felt bad when Alex turned Dean down in the fourth season. Besides him giving Alex all of his wood shop assignments as romantic gifts, Dean was a good fit for Alex. I actually forgot about how sarcastic they were with each other, which makes me love them even more. Dean and Alex never got a proper goodbye. You'd think after the card gift that we'd see them together more, but instead Dean's next appearance was the couple's break-up which makes me really sad.

Both Teddy and Alex’s moms both told them they’d find someone better they’d be with forever but then they both end up with cheaters 💀

Now, Mason has officially gone into harassment territory. No means no

I was so upset by how they wrote Mason in the last season, honestly. He never respects Alex's wishes when he tries to win her back and she says no, and he moves in to be her neighbor which is really sus. I loved them in the previous storylines, and I wish the writers had just ended it on a good note.

Can you please make a video on Alex and Justin's relationship as siblings?? It's probably the most complex brother and sister relationship that Disney had at the time.

harper is literally the only one who loved alex for exactly who she was, INCLUDING HER OWN PARENTS. she should’ve ended up single and starting a life with HARPER (platonically)

After seeing how Alex learned her lesson about loving Mason despite his appearance, you’d think he’d learn his lesson about admitting to his parents that he loves a wizard way sooner!

Dean's possy is so gay for him its hilarious i love it

I'm still not over the fact that she got back together with him AFTER he ate Dean like???

This video is making me realize that dean should have been end game. At least through their college years. Their moments are so sweet and I get they needed to figure themselves out first, but he always treated her nicely and tried being better for her. I still like her and chase as a transitionship and wish they met earlier.

I think it's says a lot that everytime Selena Gomez pitches a WoWP sequel she always has Alex be happily single. Shows that even the actors could feel how... lets say "off" the relationship was

i was rewatching wizards fairly recently and yes, i was kinda taken aback by how much my nostalgia for alex and mason clouded the mess of their relationship lmao. but i also was surprised at seeing harper and justin's evolution, how they went from sister's best friend who has a crush on him and creeps him out, to friends who like to hang out, and also her being confident about her crush mixed in there, to her getting over him and becoming more like a sibling to him, like by season 4 she was so ingrained the family she was treating him like a literal brother, the way alex does but less intense

I honestly think Alex and Dean were the better relationship, I think they had a great level of communication and mutual respect, something Mason and Alex just don’t. I prefer the honest slow burn to the quick infatuation, I think that’s the difference between something genuine and sweet vs something that can become toxic because it’s not built on a solid foundation. Alex and Mason are together because they fight to be but they’re fighting every reason to not be. Meanwhile Alex was really confident in her relationship with Dean and he always made a genuine effort to do the right thing for her. The constant jealousy, self sabotage, break ups and makes ups, etc, it’s so immature and yes they’re young but Alex’s character is not one to stay in something that’s so negative. I feel like she would’ve chosen herself a lot sooner.

Bruh Dean is presented as the bad boy and he couldnt be more of a good boy lol

oh my gosh i forgot what a secret sweetheart dean was, this poor boy thought she was depressed.

Can your relationship really go into a downward spiral if your relationship was never good in the first place?

Is it bad that I kind of wanted to see more of her and Dean??🫢

55:03 I like during this episode when the wizard giving Alex her award stood up for her decision on choosing neither of them. Alex: “I choose… neither of you.” Almost everyone: “WHAT?!” Wizard giving award: “I believe she said she chooses neither of them.”

Alex and Mason are so toxic… I don’t understand what Disney Channel’s thing with toxic ships, but it’s not a good message for the young kids who watch.

What I don't understand with the two of them.. why they NEVER considered doing the Twilight, and turn her into a werewolf IF she were to loose the Wizards Competition

Alex:that’s just fairytale stuff Me:that’s coming from a literal wizard

The nested Alex and Dean breakdown inside the Alex and Mason breakdown was such a lovely intermission of an already great video! Of the two options here, I prefer Alex and Dean over Alex and Mason. It mostly comes down to Mason getting really annoying toward the end whereas Dean never really got bad for me. As you teased at the end though, Harper >>>>

The fact the lady yells out Russo really shows that Alex throws water balloons often lol

Re Chpt. 3: it's actually NOT Alex's first kiss. In a S1 episode where Justin tries to get his first kiss with a girl he likes, with the assistance of Alex and a spell that rewinds everything by 10 seconds (that they cast a bazillion time cuz Justin keep fumbling the ball), it's revealed near the end that Alex has never had a first kiss- despite her teasing Justin all throughout the episode. In the final scene, Alex kisses a random guy in front of Justin and his now girlfriend so that "Now you've got nothing on me", to curb the teasing he began once he found out

They were so toxic but I ate them UP as a kid too! I think it's probably because the show tried to frame all the stuff that Mason did as romantic? Like the episode where he was at his MOST clingy and annoying (literally trying to trap her in a small space with him) is where they get back together. Like you, I still like them overall, but as an adult I can see how yikes some of it was. A suggestion for a couple to do next, or in the future, is Kim and Ron, solely because I think they're my favorite Disney Channel couple lol

I find it odd how Mason doesn’t have any friends (unlike Riley and Dean). I know Mason’s supposed to be new at their school but it would have made him more likeable and look like less of a predator if his sole focus wasn’t Alex 🤔

I can’t be the only one who can’t get over the fact that Mason literally TRIED TO KILL ALEX’ BROTHER ANS SOMEHOW SHE STILL WANTS TO BE WITH HIM????????? Like okay he’s a werewolf,, but most people would fall out of love in a heartbeat over this, it’s absolutely crazy!!

Disney really just loves making couples that keep saying how in love they are and how good they are with each other without actually showing it. I guess we as kids just assume they are perfect and cute together in between the episodes so that Disney can just use the episodes they are actually in as the main point of conflict and we eat it up bc we have been brainwashed into thinking they were perfect together

I was always a Team Dean person, though I grew to like Mason. But watching this made me realize not only how gross a lot of Mason's behavior was, but how he just didn't seem to get Alex at all. They both liked art, sure, but he never seemed to understand what she actually wanted from him, or respect her boundaries. And she was always very clear about it! Dean isn't "book smart," but he always seemed really well clued in to what Alex wanted and was mostly emotionally intelligent (other than the group date thing, but he's a teenager, he's allowed a couple of mistakes). Even in his character's retconning later, he's more respectful than Mason. I might not be #TeamDean for endgame, but definitely over #TeamMason.

DEAN really was great when i was a kid he kinda annoyed me but now when i watch him he is my favorite, he really never was a bad boy more of an italian young man who has been conditioned to be closed off emotionally, and alex allows for him to become more vulnerable, more character growth than mason really ever had and honestly mason could have been considered a character who regressed

I recently watched the Wizards of Waverly Place Podcast where in one the recent episodes, they explain that they fired the showrunner for the first 3 seasons and Disney took over for the last season. It's why the last season feels so different than the previous seasons. The former showrunner also revealed what his ending for the show would have looked like and what he would have done in Season 4. He had a really good response explaining how Mason and Alex were going to be endgame and he was going to show how Alex and Mason made each other better. Basically it would've been a healthier realationship.

12:23 the fact Selena was going through a real life break up at the time on filming her crying scene makes that scene hurt so much more

Controlling someone's dream is definitely manipulative and concerning

dean in general just had so much more chemistry with alex than mason ever did, they had so much tension and banter and it felt way more real. i often find that when show just tells me how the characters feel it's hard for me to believe. but with dean they showed us they liked eachother.

I loved Dean and Alex specially when we knew how Dean actually is like instead of the presumptions of the whole school about his image. And then they write him off. 💔 Back then, I understood that they were setting up Alex to be paired up with someone like her unlike Dean who's a regular human/mortal because she's gonna be the family wizard in the end.

Also I think that Lucy kinda looks like Juliet so Alex could also be a little upset that he’s “moving on” to not only her roommate, but to someone that looks like the girl he confessed feelings for during their relationship. Like for me that’d be a little back burner thought in my head

An analysis of Zack/Maya's relationship from Suite Life on Deck and Sonny/Chad from Sonny with a chance would be good choices for the next videos.

I've always loved Alex and Dean 🥹 thank you for talking about them

bro I literally forgot mason and juliet dated and that was a whole thing 😭

Why did Dean always have different name tags that were never his actual name? 😂

This video just made me realize the trend of Disney shows where the girl starts with a love interest, then the actors grow up and when the executives see the love interest not being so cute as they were when they were younger, they resolve the previous love story and introduce a new, more handsome actor to play a new love interest.

For years I felt dumb for not seeing why people like Alex with Mason so much. I always thought Dean and Alex should have been endgame. I felt so sad when they completely messed up Dean's character.

One thing about Dean and Alex that rubs me the wrong way is that she would alter/create dreams for him...to what she wanted him to dream of. which is like...one of those mind-magic/powers things that is very shaky and is a violation of someone's privacy since it's done without consent/knowledge. and I know she's young...but it's still yikes.

Honestly as a casual fan of this series I never really cared about the romance in the show. But Jesus Christ, Alex's relationship with Dean, while not perfect, is leagues above what the relationship between her and Mason is. Alex and Dean actually have chemistry with each other, they try to treat each other well and seem to genuinely care about each other. Alex and Mason is just toxic, they're not fun to watch together.

most sitcom relationships are toxic, they almost always prioritize jokes over character writing

Dean for the win! Both times alex broke up with him he truly accepted it for her even though he was hurt and still wanted to be with her. He didn't really have any jealousy issues. And I just like their banter better, they felt more natural. He also just respects her waaayyyy more.

So what I'm learning is that Dean was done incredibly dirty by the writers and is, in fact, best boy.

I recently rewatched the show and I noticed how kinda actually a bit toxic their relationship is. Alex is very manipulative either way, but making him obsessed with her because she doesn't agree with his passion for dog painting? And then he sees an ex-girlfriend and immediately confesses his undying love for her, completely neglecting Alex. But then she dates him again, but as a dog, because the necklace says it's true love?

i think disney channel has a major problem in how it portrays men not taking no for an answer as a romantic and heroic show of loyalty rather than for what it is - creepy and borderline predatory behavior. we’ve seen it with mason, diggie from liv and maddie, and i’m sure there’s more examples that i’m forgetting. teaching young girls that if a man frequently ignores your boundaries and tries to force confrontation with you, it means that he’s just madly in love with you and therefore “deserves” a chance, and not that he’s an entitled creep is beyond dangerous.

The logic of whether they can be together always really bothered me: she can only be with him if she is a wizard, because as a wizard she can defend her own life when her werewolf boyfriend inevitably tries to murder her. It's better than him successfully eating her, but isn't a healthy basis for any relationship.

I have a headcanon that Season 4 Mason was under the influence of Gorog. When he moved in, Gorog used some kind of angel of darkness influence on him to aid him in his eventual plan to lure Alex (and the rest of the Russos) to his evil side. We know angels of darkness make people behave badly, and Mason's worst characteristics come out when they're IN the apartment building. Or, y'know, bad writing. :P

alex and dean could've been the disney version of Harvey & sabrina

9:25 Also weird; if that was 300 years ago, that means that Mason is not only much much older than his new High School girlfriend, but that he also has much more dating and relationship experience. The way he acts, the things he does, especially how manipulative he becomes (and how he eats a separate High Schooler out of jealousy) is extremely, extremely worse when you remember that this is a young teenage girl--wizard or not--that he is, essentially, preying on. EDIT: Man, I really had never seen or did not remember 90% of this relationship, but god... I struggle to even call it that. This is the most toxic, fanfiction drama thing I've ever seen outside of actual fanfiction. I only tangentially ever considered Mason as a character from this show on even the most basic levels, he was just never a character that I cared about or one I was meant to, but he's insufferable. He is a fully adult, hundreds of years old toxic manipulative piece of shit. He is an awful, awful person, an 'attempted' murderer, a teen predator, and a sick, obsessed individual.

Honestly I didn’t like mason for what he represented in the show: the tone shift from fun comedy to mega drama teen show. I hated that format. A lot of the writing went so downhill-as seen with mason, just for the sake of cheap drama.

My theory regarding the immortality thing is that Mason being a “purebred” is meant to explain it. Two pure werewolves have to reproduce together, and they get immortality, or some semblance of it. Whereas a mutt, like the one Justin went out with in early season 2, is a normal human who got infected by another mutt. Either way, it’s all just a weird extension of the wild magic world racism that exists.

Dean was never gonna happen, this was decided with how Stella went and how they chose to maintain the status quo. Since it was already established that magical people and non magical people can't get married/be in a relationship without the magical person losing their magic. They can't be together unless she decides to lose her magic. She was always gonna be the sibling that won, since she was the main character.

Alex and Harper being a better endgame is a MOOD

the fact that Mason went out with Alex's roommate who looked so similar to Juliette is honestly such an ass move

I’ve always liked her and Dean more. Their personalities fit better

I just now got that Mason liked painting people as dogs cuz he's a werewolf.

I feel like one of the reasons they had to write off Dean in favor of Mason is because they wanted Alex to end up being the family wizard. She couldn't do that and end up with a mortal.

I can’t believe Dean was the healthy relationship and Mason turned into what he did during the last seasons. They kind of both sucked in hindsight, but especially him at the end. Young me is so disappointed…

Seeing how many time Mason and Alex proved they loved eachother only to constantly have doubts is quite annoying when you see it laid out back to back

you should talk about the other tropes of a new girl going after a taken guy 💀 it's so annoying to constantly see shows have a new girl who not like others suddenly have a crush on a guy who has a gf who leaves his gf for her but was already cheating basically on his gf for the new girl. it's very weird and toxic and overdone.

It irked me sm when she moves out to the magical floor and he wouldn't take rejection. She didn't want him at that time because she wanted to be single and live her life alone with harper but he wouldn't stop and eventually used magic on her to get her to like him (which did backfire but still) then he uses her roommate to make her jealous. Messing with that poor ghost girls feelings. Love Gregg Silken but they should've made his character more likeable.

I really liked Alex and Dean a lot. Their chemistry was different and I loved their sarcastic convos. I didn't hate Mason, but I just didn't really like it? Idk I couldn't really get into them when I was a kid. Justin and Juliette's relationship was top tier. Literally loved them sm and I don't think they get talked about enough. They had their ups and downs, but they weren't unhealthy.

what made the necklace scene fall flat for me was that the necklace was so goddamn ugly

My question is as an adult, if Alex decides not to be a wizard anymore, why does the love and romance counsel have a say in her relationship with Mason? I understand they’re trying to protect her, but it’s still confusing why the chancellor has the power to make them break up? Like I wanna know what the consequences of Alex just saying “No, don’t tell me what to do.”

I feel like mason's character change coincides with when twilight started getting popular and girls across America started romanticizing toxic possessive relationships. I remember watching the show as a kid after reading the series and thinking they were making him more like a twilight werewolf than the more "classic" werewolf he started as.

The beginning seasons of wizards feel much more heartfelt at times, which is maybe why I’ve always loved alex and dean sm. The episode about alex’s journal was always one of my favorites. However i agree that alex + mason’s story is much better for an endgame, with alex fighting for them to be together through the wizard competition.

am I the only one who actually liked the woodshop houses like they were cute to me I would’ve kept them in my room as like decor or something 😭

"Long story short, the broken elevator causes Mr Laritate to turn into a zombie." That is one heck of a shortening.

Damn I feel like going into this video I thought Alex and Mason were gonna be my OTP like when I was 12 but now looking back at Alex and Dean, I’m reconsidering. They have such insane chemistry, she is so much herself when she is with him, and he is so sweet and kind to her. Mason is great and he’s a nice boy and he’s very cute and whatever but I feel like their relationship is really superficial and needlessly complicated.

Wow, I feel like the show focussed on the mistakes Alex made, I forgot how much Mason was the problematic one in the relationship

i LOVE the kiss scene "kiss me first" "but you have a cold..." simply iconic

I think the “i’ll never stop loving you” thing is about wolf loyalty. For me, it just how everybody feels about a certain person in their life that they really loved but weren’t their end game. It just means that we will keep the memories but it doesn’t take anything away from our present.

honestly I always heard Mason say “i’ve never stopped loving you” not “i will never stop loving you” the actual wording does seem pretty significant

I feel like this is a ship built mainly on how likable both actors are and nostalgia. Once you really stop to look at it there really isn't enough cute moments to support how annoying it gets later. Even as a kid the apartment EPs annoyed me enough to change the channel when they came on.

I know Twilight werewolves aren't true werewolves but I know they don't age unless they stop using their shape shifting abilities

I always really liked her relationship with dean, I wished they would have kept him as her love interest. Although, I feel like they’d have to do a whole thing dealing with Alex being a wizard and the “a wizard and a mortal can’t be together” thing. So I feel like bc they already had the idea of alex winning the wizard games from the beginning they wanted to pull away from dean. Which makes sense, dean wasn’t really in the later plot. If he was they’d have to change a lot of the story

It's really a shame how the show kept messing with Mason and Alex--the reason I, and others, really liked their relationship at first, is because it seemed like it was gonna skip the nonsense and get to the point. So many relationships, at the time and afterwards, would drag their ships on and on and on just to have the pay-off happen when the show is almost ending, never exploring how they're like as a relationship. Disney Channel usually wouldn't do this, but Alex and Mason still felt especially to the point in a way that felt less rushed and more refreshing...And then they played into the cliche of them breaking up way too many times 😒 I always preferred Alex and Dean. Because I've always found the set-up of two flirty, snarky troublemakers as a Disney Channel couple more intriging and entertaining as a dynamic, but also, their progression as a relationship was so much better and more natural. Y'know, until the show just...stops wanting to write for them. I like Malex's cute scenes, the chemistry was always there, but given how it turned out and how enjoyable Alex and Dean were, I still feel like Malex ruined them. Anyway, about naming you ships I'd like for you to tackle! For one, I'd love to see you tackle the Hannah Montana love triangle in its own video--the love triangle was advertised like crazy and felt so HUGE and DRAMATIC at the time, and I think it's interested how little discussion it stirs up nowadays. Also, Cody and Bailey, 'cause I distinctly remember little me going from liking to disliking the ship in real time 💀