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Where does this show fit in?

posted 17 years ago by YeshuaTourniquet
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i just don't get it, is this the first re-make of the series? there are refrences to the orginal series but they make no sense

first, Nova is there and can speak, she wears the dogtags of Brent (from beneath the planet of the apes),
they say that brent was born a hundred years after they left, that makes no sense because he was from Taylor's time in the first movie, second Nova didn't wander around after she met him, she stayed with him till she died in the buried city, her only spoken words were minutes before her death

second, the apes have cars,movies,tv etc that speaks for itself

third cornelius and zera act like they never saw another human that can speak, what about Tayler and Brent, they just mentioned Brent so they have had to met him before

is there some sort of explaination that i am missing as to where this fits in with the rest of the movies?

the other show actually fits into the timeline (aside from a few mistakes such as there being dogs or the dates being wrong) it just takes place many years before the orginal movie but this show seems to be an oddity and be it's own self-contained story

[–] KimberlyShaw 17 years ago

This is considered an alternate Planet of the Apes universe and exists apart from the series of live action adventures. For what it is, it's pretty good, tho'.

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[–] traceinla 16 years ago

The live action TV series, I believe, takes place AFTER the events of the original 5 movies. It would have to, since the primitive humans aren't mute in the TV series (one could assume they acquired the power speech from the examples set by Taylor and Brent, just as the apes did by watching Caesar in "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes". I believe there's also a vague reference or two to Taylor in the pilot episode. The animated cartoon TV series, I always thought, takes place after the live-action, since the apes are more technologically advanced but, of course, this belies the inconsistencies mentioned. All said inconsistencies may be explained away with the idea of separate "rivers" of time as discussed in "Battle for the Planet of the Apes".

[–] KimberlyShaw 16 years ago

Thinking back, the Planet of the Apes blew up at the end of Beneath the planet of the apes. That places the series about the time of the 5th film which predates the events of the 1st film. In the animated series , both Nova and Brent from Beneath appear, but it is an alternate ape world which is quite different from the films.

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[–] S.L.Fake 16 years ago

To me there are 4 different tellings of the Planet of the Apes... NONE of them related.

1. The original movie series (1968 - 1973)

2. The Live action TV series (1974)

3. The Animated TV Series (1975)

4. The 2000 (something) movie.

To me while they all tell the story of "the Planet of the Apes", they are all unrelated... just a differen telling of the same idea... not alternate time lines, not alternate universes... just a differen telling of the same concept... like the 1978 Battlestar Galactica and the 2004 Battlestar Galactica... different takes on the same story.

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[–] oh_oh_oh_yeach 10 years ago

this has its own continuety from the t.v. series thta was live action thta series(live action)also has its own continuety

[–] wallacesawyer 16 years ago

Well when the apes went back in time in ESCAPE it changed the oriignal timeline around. And I think the live-action series is sometime after BATTLE, but long before humans and apes are equals.

This cartoon, seems more like it's set after BENEATH, and the world wasn't destroyed. And the apes got a hold of human technology.

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[–] RichN36 15 years ago

I would have to say the Cartoon takes place some where after the Events of the BOOK Planet of the Apes. The Apes in that have all the same technology as planet Earth.

If it helps any there is a Web Page that has all the details of Planet of the Apes and where all the Events take place of all the Movies and TV shows also works in the Comic Books just to make things intresting.

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[–] millerdsplaydzign 15 years ago

It doesn't fit anywhere. Taken on it's own, it's enjoyable if you go into it with no expectations, forgetting everything you know about the original movie and first sequel, especially the look of both films, or who the characters are, or how things in that universe behave. This show is a bastard element concocted by people who appear to have had only a vague idea which Planet they were supposed to be "Return"ing viewers to.

It IS interesting to watch for the story, and there's some occasionally very good ink rendering on some of the backgrounds, and consistently good voice work from two or three of the actors, but it's all doubly bad when considering that the original movies and the live action TV series were still fresh in the minds of fans when this came along.

[–] bbally81 14 years ago

The show might not fit with the other films but it is much more faithful to the original novel in that the Apes lived in a technologically advanced society, which supposed to be used in the first movie but was scrapped due to budgetary reasons.