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Date: 2001-08-24 20:36:13

Comment:

This is my take, thou i believe that the genius in the film is that how many different ways it can be interpretted.

PotA is Earth. Leo crash lands in a future Earth, as the ships clock suggests. The rescuing mothership lands on a past Earth (approx 500AD) as they pickup their own 'may day' signal along with other past transmissions such as Hitlers olympic games speech thing. The year is about 2500 and the apes evolved from the genetically altered ones on the ship.

In the end, Leo goes back in time to 2100 but discovers the world to be ruled by apes which have technology due to the human innovation.

Now for this world to de-evolutionalise (is that even a word? hehe) there must have been a war (like the original) or maybe a great natural disaster. Maybe a meteor shower hit the earth: thereby explaining the extra moons as meteors being trapped in Earths orbit, and maybe Earth got knocked into a different orbit around the sun, hence Saturn as the neighbouring planet. Many humans are wiped in the disaster with the few survivors. The apes also survive and begin a civilisation. Kind of like the deal with the neanderthal, a more dominate species; in this case the apes, limiting a lesser species - humans - and would possibly lead to extinction of humans.

At least this explains to me howcome Leo lands on a barren planet of the future yet returns to a ape controlled present.