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The Pink Opaque allows Isabel to vicariously live out her gender without having to make the hard choices that doing so in the real world would require (which she repeatedly refuses to do). But eventually drugs stop working, so to speak. A children's TV show isn't enough to stave off adult despair. As Isabel is no longer able to project the richness of her inner life into the show, it is revealed as it truly is, crass and artless.
Or alternately, or simultaneously, this is the final victory of Mr. Melancholy. Not only is Isabel shut out of the real world for good, the one link with her real life, her real self, has been drained of meaning. Isabel already lost her chance to escape with Maddie, and now the last remnants are taken from her.