Senefra
08-06-2001, 07:38 PM
OK I have some spoilers, but very few so bear with me!
1)The Space station recieves a distress signal sent by it's future to warn it however they do not recognize themselves on screen because their future selves have aged.
2)Leo mentions this in the beginning of the film. The primates on that station carried genetically spliced ape/human DNA to make them more evolved intelectually. This proves to be a problem because not only will they evolve mentally, but once they have crash landed, they are given a chance to evolve over a few thousand instead of a few million.
3)During this time humans have already hit their evolutionary stride. These apes however are more mentally advanced, thus allowing them to enslave humanity before they reach their mental evolutionairy peak. Even so, he humans to ape ratio is 4:1, meaning that not all of the humans have been enslaved.
4)Thade's family goes back to Seamus, one of the genetically hybrid primates from the original space station. Since Seamus lead the other primates in a revolt against their human hosts, they must have aquired some weapons from the ship, thus the reason for Thade having the gun.
5)My theory on Seamus is this. Before leaving Pericles mated with one of the female primates. This female gave birth to Seamus after the space station crashed, and as mentioned by the "aged" doctor in the distress signal, was raised by the doctor. But since Seamus parentage was genetically hybrid human/apes, his intelligence level was double, maybe even quadruple that, of the other primates, making him the leader of the revolt because of it.
6)Seamus must have known his father or Leo hadn't arrived on the planet, probably from past records on the space station. Knowing from these records that Pericles' ship was programmed to automatically head for the distress signal, and knowing it was transmitting from the derelict space station's future, he spawned this "legend of Seamus's return". Since Seamus knew Pericles was his father, he knew the evolved apes would mistake Pericles for himself, and so he made the location of his return "Calima" (CAution LIve MAmmals sign abbreviated), in other words, the derelict ship's location.
7)As for Leo's return to an ape-ruled earth where Thade is a savior, I believe Leo was dreaming the whole thing and is still heading for earth. Otherwise, why would Thade look like Lincoln? Or all of the buildings and monuments seem the same?
8)I believe Burton was trying to give us a shock value of an ending, wheter it pissed us off or left us wondering what the hell happened to our planet. I know he wasn't trying to top the original's ending w/the Statue of Liberty, but I thing he wanted to bring the same shock to the system. Thus the outrage of an ending.
9)If there is a sequel, maybe we'll see Leo wake up from the "nightmare ending", probably having been knocked unconcious by the time jump. He wakes up in an infirmiry of some kind and tells his story, but I'm guessing the earth he'll be on will be an ape/human society because of the resolution between the evolved apes and the wild humans towards the end of the first one.
Oh well, that's it for now, but if you guys have any other theories or want to add to the ones above, let me know.
[This message has been edited by Senefra (edited 08-06-2001).]
1)The Space station recieves a distress signal sent by it's future to warn it however they do not recognize themselves on screen because their future selves have aged.
2)Leo mentions this in the beginning of the film. The primates on that station carried genetically spliced ape/human DNA to make them more evolved intelectually. This proves to be a problem because not only will they evolve mentally, but once they have crash landed, they are given a chance to evolve over a few thousand instead of a few million.
3)During this time humans have already hit their evolutionary stride. These apes however are more mentally advanced, thus allowing them to enslave humanity before they reach their mental evolutionairy peak. Even so, he humans to ape ratio is 4:1, meaning that not all of the humans have been enslaved.
4)Thade's family goes back to Seamus, one of the genetically hybrid primates from the original space station. Since Seamus lead the other primates in a revolt against their human hosts, they must have aquired some weapons from the ship, thus the reason for Thade having the gun.
5)My theory on Seamus is this. Before leaving Pericles mated with one of the female primates. This female gave birth to Seamus after the space station crashed, and as mentioned by the "aged" doctor in the distress signal, was raised by the doctor. But since Seamus parentage was genetically hybrid human/apes, his intelligence level was double, maybe even quadruple that, of the other primates, making him the leader of the revolt because of it.
6)Seamus must have known his father or Leo hadn't arrived on the planet, probably from past records on the space station. Knowing from these records that Pericles' ship was programmed to automatically head for the distress signal, and knowing it was transmitting from the derelict space station's future, he spawned this "legend of Seamus's return". Since Seamus knew Pericles was his father, he knew the evolved apes would mistake Pericles for himself, and so he made the location of his return "Calima" (CAution LIve MAmmals sign abbreviated), in other words, the derelict ship's location.
7)As for Leo's return to an ape-ruled earth where Thade is a savior, I believe Leo was dreaming the whole thing and is still heading for earth. Otherwise, why would Thade look like Lincoln? Or all of the buildings and monuments seem the same?
8)I believe Burton was trying to give us a shock value of an ending, wheter it pissed us off or left us wondering what the hell happened to our planet. I know he wasn't trying to top the original's ending w/the Statue of Liberty, but I thing he wanted to bring the same shock to the system. Thus the outrage of an ending.
9)If there is a sequel, maybe we'll see Leo wake up from the "nightmare ending", probably having been knocked unconcious by the time jump. He wakes up in an infirmiry of some kind and tells his story, but I'm guessing the earth he'll be on will be an ape/human society because of the resolution between the evolved apes and the wild humans towards the end of the first one.
Oh well, that's it for now, but if you guys have any other theories or want to add to the ones above, let me know.
[This message has been edited by Senefra (edited 08-06-2001).]