This episode really pleasantly surprised me, because to me in the later final seasons where the majority of the episodes were fine but noticeably missing that certain special something, this one turned out to be a real deep and heartwarming gem of a story that had the emotional punch of "Luck of the Fryish" and "Jurassic Bark", to name two of the most memorable examples. I think this was a very worthy successor to those beautiful moving stories. The mystery of the powerful alien tone that Fry knows he's heard before but cannot place is compelling and drives the first part of the plot forward nicely. I frankly really didn't like what the noise turned out to be, I thought that was a bit lame. But I did love the direction the story ended up in and how it set it up so well with the far out and awesome concept of Fry's consciousness being sent into the past in a way, via his dream memory of the day that he slipped into the fateful cryogenic tube. It's really well thought out and rather mind-bending, I didn't get how some of the characters knew they were in his dream, but I loved the stuff like how when he had no memory of something in his dream-scape there was just a white empty space, that was awesome, Futurama could always do awesome very well! It's very poignant and touching the way Fry wanted to keep spending time with his dream family rather than find the origin of the noise right away. And anyone who's ever seen Jurassic Bark will know that it means a lot when he gives Seymour the dog a big hug! It's beautiful at the end where Fry is given the gift of visiting his lost mother in her own dream, giving her comfort as well as a new memory of him, as seen when she wakes up and smiles at his picture. It really is something akin to that sometimes in dreams, a lot of the time when you dream about people and animals that you cared about who are long gone the dream ends just as you reach them, but sometimes you do reach them and get to look in their eyes, hold and even smell them again. Dreams like that almost feel like precious offerings from beyond that are meant to give us hope and maybe more... Sorry to ramble there but it's a lovely episode that moved me and even made me think a little! Thanks so much Futurama team, fantastic job, you knocked this one out of the park! Everyone please take care and be as happy as you possibly can be! X
Review of Game of Tones
