This is not in my usual habits to reviewing the finale of a show that I haven't reviewed before, but before to launching this blog, there was a possibility to make the same thing for Braceface. The show looked charming when you are on a 00s-nostalgic vibe, but at an actual product, it is obvious that they have a real problem in there: Many moments from the series weren't that memorable or worse, looked like that they exagerated the perils of adolescence, even if the crew having to do their best with such generic dialogues on the characters.
The series bragged over three long seasons of 26 episodes each, plus a visual novel adaptation published by Éditions Jungle few years later. The series is lately getting back to life by the multitude of AI-fanarts of the girl protatgonist, but when I first seen it for the first time in 2022 after years of dormance, it also shown its fullests colors in there. It is very hard to appreciate again a show that you have constantly ignored when that first came.
So, that was "Leap of Faith", the 78th and last episode of the Braceface series, where every of the episode set on an Enviro-Camp that looked like the Kamp Koolahah from the last Season 1 episodes, but has augmented to be more a Nelvana "fashion"-way to make cartoons than of what we have to known from the series at first place.
The first season having a good reason why the characters went in camp, where each episodes reflected one complete school year by the Sharon Spitz' experience. You seen her in its casual summer oufit, then in the winter ones, and in the spring one. That helped to created in some ways a sense of continuity and variety, which it was completely missing in the third season. There, it's a little weak plot when you seen the same annoying jokes that the crew has developped on the show (Sharon's says "I'm a Vegetarian" to Alex is more likely her, rehearsing her lines than actually acting, Brock's fart sound in the lake, Alden suspicious that he like Sharon again, etc.) but it is very weird that this is going to be the series' last, if the rest of the main cast were nowhere to be found.
One key problem of why this episode (And many other series' finales) didn't work is how Maria Wong-- Yeah yeah!--The BFF's Sharon's pal, is been ultimately wasted there, by don't stop to arguing and complaining to the boys in this long depressing 22-minutes title. I don't think Nina Harper, if she was there, would do it better, but Maria was hitting hard to the way the crew seems to have forgotten why this character exist. The Hanna-Barber-ian slapstick Influence was also obvious in the overall episode that it is also very weird to seen that when animated characters having to displaying us a realistic view of their environment. Something that Julien Neel will succeeded with LOU!, but repeated the same mistakes later than of what Braceface has done.
The climax revealed to what we have to known since the first episode, "Brace Yourself" has appear--It is that Alden and Sharon are finally a couple,-- and for good! One last fall in the river from Sharon was the coup d'éclat of the love revelation from Alden to his fetish friend, even by their own break-up from "Dear Alden" in the second season. That leads us the question, what have happened throughout all that time? Why is Alden has done with Sharon when she don't longer need her? Why is he's get feelings to her again? Such of a series finale that will be cool for 2004s standards appeared nowadays at what happened if you decide to snub consuming products for your show because you hate merchandising.
Just because a cartoon production are set in commerce don't meant that the whole show is bad. It was a real problem in the long 00s. Kim Possible that still hung lots of fans here and there, never getting the chance either at a part of marketing products. But looking of the show today, it's not difficult to see why. This is on there the creators-driven era on animation went to an end, where cartoons remains at more cynical, sadistic and off-putting than they ever were over a decade earlier.
While the Nelvana studio closing their doors in late summer by a series of factors, (The removal of its catalog by Pluto TV is part of that reason) this is clear to me that Braceface is faced to an eventual death, even if Corus took all the ownership for it. But that didn't getting them carte blanche to airing it over and over like in the past years where it getting a reruns treatment. It's sad because Canadian voices can't longer be hear by the multitude of American streaming platforms that everyone in the world consum instead of their own actual contents. It is something that we seen the same problematic in most Quebec's BDs if the artform itself, is over a generation late to the reality. Today's youths like better the convenience of Mangas and the things from Netflix, Disney+ or Hulu than these.
Barceface has quit completely Canadian Television in late summer of the last year by Nickelodeon Canada (The channel has shutting down this year) and on Télétoon, has ended its reruns by Christmas Eve the past year as well. The girls empowerment in cartoons is now-on in the hands of metrosexual and masochists creepers for please their lewd impulses. "Leap of Faith" sounds likely a pretty weak finale to a long animated series for that time, (78 episodes was a rare number for an animated show in the 00s) but knowing that it is been the end of all this, the whole crew and series finale deserved better.
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