Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Planet of the Apes
Okay, so let's have some wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey Planet of the Apes stuff now.
SO. Original Timeline, original series…
(Planet) Taylor and Co. leave Earth in their newfangled awesome spacecraft, heading for Mars. They put themselves in stasis and somehow, during the journey, they hit an anomaly in space and get shot to some distant point in the future. They crash land on a planet they don't recognize as any in the solar system, where they are attacked and captured by talking, upright Gorillas.
Taylor is made a slave, then a friend, then escapes with the help of two Chimpanzees named Cornelius and Zira. While wandering, he comes across the Statue of Liberty buried in the sand and comes to understand that he is on Earth, sometime in the distant future.
(Beneath) La-de-da-de-da, Taylor finds what's left of talking Humans and things go to hell in a trolley and Taylor sets off a Nuclear bomb and everybody in the vicinity dies.
(Escape) Back with the apes, Cornelius and Zira come across Taylor's spaceship and manage to activate it's return home function, and they shoot off into space. Encountering the same anomaly Taylor and Co. originally encountered, they crash back onto planet Earth in the present, where as you can imagine, the American's stuck them in a lab. Zira is pregnant. Naturally, they break out.
They seek shelter with a circus (KHAAAAAN!!!) and once Zira has delivered Caesar, they swap the infant with the circus's chimpanzee's baby who is about the same age.
Zira, Cornelius, and the chimpanzee baby are all shot to death by paranoid idiot Americans.
(Conquest) Disease wipes out all the cats and dogs, so humans take apes as pets. Caesar grows up and is enslaved. He starts teaching all the other apes to stand up for themselves. Cue NUCLEAR WAR!
(Battle) Caesar isn't an idiot, though, and it's all eventually resolved peacefully. The Humans and Apes live together in harmony, therefore changing the future that Taylor and Co. will crash land into, and so, in theory, Taylor won't be a slave, won't be killed, and in all likelihood, will return home with most of his crew (save the lady who dies in stasis) to an Earth that will never have Zira and Cornelius in it or Caesar in it…
Until…
(Planet 2000) Where Taylor-With-Another-Name hops into a space craft and does a test flight and hits an anomaly and winds up in the future where he crashes into a planet peopled by upright talking apes and talking Humans who are fighting them.
And while all that is going on…
(Rise) Back in the past, Caesar is born of a mother chimpanzee who was a test subject in clinical trials for a cure to Alzheimer's. The drug being tested is passed down to him through his mother, who is killed when she tries to protect him, greatly enhancing his mental abilities.
Caesar grows up in a Human home with a father who loves him very much, but doesn't quite understand him. Caesar, after being locked away in an animal shelter for attacking the jerk of a next door neighbor, steals the new drug and gives it to the other apes in the enclosure. He learns to speak, most specifically the word "No." The other apes, notably impressed by this, declare him their leader.
They all escape and flee into a national park, to form a city all of their own.
This is me, trying to make sense of it all…
X_X
So, what I can get from cramming these three (as the directors, writers and producers have told us) unrelated movies/sagas together, is that The Original PotA saga is now some sort of odd time bubble that DID happen, but BY happening, caused itself to have not happened and now exists separate from the new established timeline in its own little whirly bit of wobbly space-time continuum thing.
I would not want to see this on a flow chart. It would need to be three dimensional.
SO. Original Timeline, original series…
(Planet) Taylor and Co. leave Earth in their newfangled awesome spacecraft, heading for Mars. They put themselves in stasis and somehow, during the journey, they hit an anomaly in space and get shot to some distant point in the future. They crash land on a planet they don't recognize as any in the solar system, where they are attacked and captured by talking, upright Gorillas.
Taylor is made a slave, then a friend, then escapes with the help of two Chimpanzees named Cornelius and Zira. While wandering, he comes across the Statue of Liberty buried in the sand and comes to understand that he is on Earth, sometime in the distant future.
(Beneath) La-de-da-de-da, Taylor finds what's left of talking Humans and things go to hell in a trolley and Taylor sets off a Nuclear bomb and everybody in the vicinity dies.
(Escape) Back with the apes, Cornelius and Zira come across Taylor's spaceship and manage to activate it's return home function, and they shoot off into space. Encountering the same anomaly Taylor and Co. originally encountered, they crash back onto planet Earth in the present, where as you can imagine, the American's stuck them in a lab. Zira is pregnant. Naturally, they break out.
They seek shelter with a circus (KHAAAAAN!!!) and once Zira has delivered Caesar, they swap the infant with the circus's chimpanzee's baby who is about the same age.
Zira, Cornelius, and the chimpanzee baby are all shot to death by paranoid idiot Americans.
(Conquest) Disease wipes out all the cats and dogs, so humans take apes as pets. Caesar grows up and is enslaved. He starts teaching all the other apes to stand up for themselves. Cue NUCLEAR WAR!
(Battle) Caesar isn't an idiot, though, and it's all eventually resolved peacefully. The Humans and Apes live together in harmony, therefore changing the future that Taylor and Co. will crash land into, and so, in theory, Taylor won't be a slave, won't be killed, and in all likelihood, will return home with most of his crew (save the lady who dies in stasis) to an Earth that will never have Zira and Cornelius in it or Caesar in it…
Until…
(Planet 2000) Where Taylor-With-Another-Name hops into a space craft and does a test flight and hits an anomaly and winds up in the future where he crashes into a planet peopled by upright talking apes and talking Humans who are fighting them.
And while all that is going on…
(Rise) Back in the past, Caesar is born of a mother chimpanzee who was a test subject in clinical trials for a cure to Alzheimer's. The drug being tested is passed down to him through his mother, who is killed when she tries to protect him, greatly enhancing his mental abilities.
Caesar grows up in a Human home with a father who loves him very much, but doesn't quite understand him. Caesar, after being locked away in an animal shelter for attacking the jerk of a next door neighbor, steals the new drug and gives it to the other apes in the enclosure. He learns to speak, most specifically the word "No." The other apes, notably impressed by this, declare him their leader.
They all escape and flee into a national park, to form a city all of their own.
This is me, trying to make sense of it all…
X_X
So, what I can get from cramming these three (as the directors, writers and producers have told us) unrelated movies/sagas together, is that The Original PotA saga is now some sort of odd time bubble that DID happen, but BY happening, caused itself to have not happened and now exists separate from the new established timeline in its own little whirly bit of wobbly space-time continuum thing.
I would not want to see this on a flow chart. It would need to be three dimensional.