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Date: 2001-12-29 08:59:59

Comment:

Ok. I think I have the ending figured out. Forget about going back in time because that's highly improbable from a scientific perspective. Also, assume we're always on earth since falling on a planet that so closely resembles earth is also improbable. So, in chronological order... 1. Leo goes into the time warp storm after the monkey 2. nuclear war destroys earth while Leo's crewmates were looking for him-year 2025? (speculation, but it is consistent with the theme of the first Planet of the Apes) 3. the Oberon ship crashes to earth years a few years later to a barren earth 4. In this wild post-nuclear earth, humans from the ship get taken over by the monkeys on the ship; the monkeys further evolve (remember they are genetically altered so that explains how they eventually learn to speak English) 5. Leo comes out of the time warp and lands on earth several thousands years later 6. The monkey lands a few days later (probably caught in the same time warp wave which explains their close proximity in landing around the same time) 7. When Leo leaves in the pod; he goes ahead in time a few hundred more years and once again lands on earth. 8. After Leo left, Thades licked his wounds and eventually won the war with the humans. However, remember that in the film, these apes are not creative. Therefore, all their culture would be derived from images of earth,up to about 2020,bouncing in that time warp storm thing. Remember, those images were stored in the ruined ship's computers. That explains the almost identical scene of present-day Washington D.C. I can explain 2 small conflicts 1) time going backwards in the pod reflects screwed up readings and 2) the 3 moons could easily be some futuristic atmospheric optical illusion. For example,a fata morgana or sun dogs. Remember, this is post-nuclear earth several thousand years in the future. I'm interested if there is a flaw in this argument.