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>I just saw "War" last night, so I'm gonna see it again to >check for deets and easter eggs. But here's a few things I've >been wondering. > >-They never showed the faces of the soldiers that invaded The >Colonel's base at the end. I read somewhere that that means >they might not be human. I think that's ridiculous, because >they came to relieve him of command ( thus following military >protocol), but it's worth discussing
i had a moment when i was thinking something similar right before the got to the wall, but then i remember dismissing when they got close enough from that group to notice caesar. i don't remember why.
>-Also, do you think the Alpha/Omega squad survivors ( if there >are any ) will become that weird group of mutants who lived >underground in ( I wanna say "Beneath...")?
i don't know if they'd play it that tight, especially because groups of humans just don't stick around/matter in this conception of the franchise other than their connections to caesar. plus it seemed like everything stockpiled was conventional. there are reactors and places like norad though right? might be some people there. the only thing that makes the connection at all is the alpha-omega, but that's terminology that a lot of crazy prophetic human leaders might use.
this is also where the original franchise got messy, so maybe they'd avoid that.
>-From the original series, we know that eventually the Apes >migrated all over the US ( if not the whole of North America), >so what happened in Europe, Asia, etc? ( We know from "Rise" >that the Simian Flu went worldwide and killed or infected the >humans, but did apes in those parts of the world come to power >too? I always wondered that.)
the big thing at play here is the nuclear aspect. large stretches of that earth were considered inhabitable in general in that timeline. it's hard to tell from this movie given its locations if there has been fallout to that extent. the COASTAL pack of snow was weird to me and doesn't match any place i know, but i've certainly seen deep snow at crater lake or the olympics or whistler. the other locations don't seem to give credence to nuclear winter.
>-Why was Bad Ape all skinny, hairless and funny lookin'? Was >he supposed to be an elderly chimp? Or was it from years of >living in solitude and not eating, etc?
i assume it was about the conditions. especially considering how he gets his name. i've been around a lot of chimps in captivity, and you do have some that have lost or pulled out a lot of fur from stress. though chimps can get alopecia and lose hair with age like people.
>-There was an Icarus easter egg in "Rise", and we know that >Taylor and crew crash in the area near where the ape >population has settled. But we also know that the apes have >set up a society complete with books, architecture, etc. I'd >like an explanation of when the apes started their own written >history ( we know they could write, and we know Caesar could >read). Though I suppose 'they kept evolving' would be an easy >answer. >
especially if there was more evolutionary pressure and acceleration given the mental/communicative aspects of the simian flu. if it's changing in how it affects humans, it could be true for apes too.
i'm really impressed by the whole nova arc in the movie.
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