BRACEFACE -- if it was made today

What you seen at left is an AI-fanart of Sharon Spitz from the Braceface dramedy series, but at more older and by be the product of an AI-artist name BFSharonForever (Yeah! Clever username!). That begs me to figure that now that the original animated series is now plugged off back the airs of Canadian Television since few months, this is like returning in the mid-to-late-00s decade, to how bland and trite newer animated materials started to came about and that, even without any perfection, the Melissa Clark creations need a reboot. A good one that just don't traced what went done right in the Original.

Braceface was a rare treasure in 2001, about a normal teenage girl who have to dealt with metallic braces that cause some chaos when metal objects came in its way. It was also a Canadian production, on a time when these kinds of shows still having the "Canadian" touch that we wouldn't seen anymore after the series ended its run. Like any great Canadians productions, the cartoon was able to tackle such topical themes like when Sharon become a Vegetarian (A thing that went repeated in all the whole thing in dialogues), or the issues of racism, firsts menstrual periods, the difficult choice that her mother choose another man instead of Richard by their late divorce, the fact that they are Jews, anything that were suitable to be seen on a Teen animated show.

It also having the rare ability to please the casual animation fans along to the most serious one! Almost one quarter-century later, the show proven to be a legacy, even if many elements are dated or that it was carrying with lame and listless dialogues. (Even dubbed for that matter)

But it don't stop me to says that we do need a show like this-- NOW! By the threat of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the climbed popularity of masculinism by social media, when newer medias' contents become like a shit-show than a real story or the inherent toxicity, narcissism and uncivility madness of people in the streets due to social media and Reality TV, the likes of Sharon Spitz and Maria Wong were a rare breed in this era (At that time) of cultural mediocrity and blandness. If that worked out well in 2001, why not shoot a reboot when we see the protagonists in their parenting times?

Or yeah, we'll forget-- Kevin Gillis have pitched many years ago a teaser for a supposed reboot of his fetish show The Raccoons, with characters like Bert and Lisa Raccoon became parents. Apparently, it was never made if the online reception was so bad that the project is been cancelled before it get started. Maybe for Braceface, this is for the best. (Not to confuse with the very dismal 2023s Glénat graphic novel series that share the same name)

In 2025, the world of medias don't longer need of a show that date of almost one quarter-century old like Braceface anymore, even not on streaming if that don't paid their announcers. But the real world need of the Sharon Spitz's optimistic and likable personality more than ever.