No disrespect to Alex Russo’s star-crossed romance with werewolf Mason, however the authentic showrunner of Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place had a way more fascinating pairing in thoughts for Selena Gomez‘s character, one followers by no means bought to see.
During his look on the March 27 episode of rewatch podcast Wizards of Waverly Pod, Peter Murrieta, who ran Wizards for its first three seasons (2007–2010), was requested to share a storyline he needs he may have explored additional. And it’s a biggie.
“I wished we could have played more with what was quite obvious to a lot of us, which was the relationship between Stevie and Alex,” Murrieta stated, referring to the bad-girl wizard character performed by Hayley Kiyoko in 4 episodes.
While he would have favored to discover them as doubtlessly greater than pals, Murrieta stated, “We weren’t able to in that time, but it was pretty clear to all of us what that relationship was. That would have been fun.”
“If it was just a few years down the line, we maybe could have played with that,” co-host Jennifer Stone stated, with co-host David DeLuise acknowledging that “nowadays that could happen” on Disney Channel.
“Disney Channel has had characters, and they did it, but we got as close as we could,” Murrieta stated. “Pretty close. It was pretty much right there.”
He additionally revealed what his ending would have been for the collection, which truly did revolve fairly a bit round Gomez and Gregg Sulkin’s characters: “I was hoping the fourth season would be about the building of [Alex] and Mason’s relationship,” he stated. This time round, the couple would “be good for each other and fix each other.” And despite the fact that Alex would nonetheless win within the contest in Murrieta’s ending, she would hand over being the household wizard as a result of she’s in love with a non-wizard, similar to her dad.
Murrieta additionally thought the present ought to have ended with Rachel Dratch (as grown-up Harper) studying this complete story to a mattress full of youngsters.
Wizards followers, how do you are feeling about Murrieta’s dream ending, in addition to what he wished to discover between Alex and Stevie? Drop a remark along with your ideas under.
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