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, "Michael Whitty" <whitty@c...> wrote:
>
> Yeah - it's a DIFFERENT plague..like many other things the various
components of the ape takeover are sped up because Zira and Cornelius
visit their past. Otherwise the plague was going to happen hundreds
of years later as it did in the initial timeline..
>
> 10, 9, 8, 7, 6...
*** ...5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0!
It ain't a different plague, Mike. There is no evidence whatsoever
in "ESCAPE" or "CONQUEST" that the Plague "was going to happen
hundreds of years later" -- Cornelius & Zira never tell Hasslein that
the Plague happened X-number of years prior to their own time. They
only say that Man's downfall and the story of how Apes rose began in
their prehistory, with the Plague that killed the dogs and cats.
The only time-references Cornelius and Zira give are to the DURATION
of two different periods:
1) Apes, having replaced the lost dogs and cats, serve as PETS, for a
period of "two centuries"
2) Apes, having been Pets for 2 centuries, were turned into SLAVES,
and then "turned the tables" on their Human masters "after three more
centuries".
Cornelius doesn't say, "The Plague struck the dogs and cats of the
world exactly 1,972 years before we flew in that spaceship with Milo"
(which is true, since 3955 minus 1983 is 1,972 years) -- nor does he
give ANY indication as to how many years prior to 3955 that ancient
plague from Prehistory occurred.
Thus, Mike, there's NO evidence that the arrival of the Ape-onauts
somehow SPED UP the timeframe of when that Plague struck. It happens
8 years prior to "CONQUEST" -- 1991 - 8 = 1983 ... the date that is
carved on the Pet Memorial, which Armando says was "... eight years
ago..."
If Hasslein's paranoid successors believed Cornelius and Zira, by
that point, they should've connected the dots in 1983-to-1984, when,
a month after the first pet deaths, the last of the dogs and cats on
Earth had died. They would think to themselves: "Cornelius said that
a Plague would kill off the dogs and cats... and that Plague has now
happened. We NOW have to expect that people will replace those lost
pets with Apes..."
And, lo and behold, that happens. And, AFTER having taken in Apes as
pets, they would say -- if they believed Cornelius' testimony to
Hasslein and E1 and E2 -- that there would be a period of TWO
CENTURIES before any ape would be turned into a slave...
Yet, in the year 1991, the Apes have been slaves for an untold number
of years -- fewer than 8 years, of course.
THAT would have been a cause for alarm. When it became apparent that
the Pet-Apes were being ENSLAVED, only a few YEARS after the Plague,
and not TWO CENTURIES after the Plague, THEN the Federal Authorities
who know about the Ape-onaut 'prophecies' would have to ask
themselves whether or not Cornelius had been either MISTAKEN or
PURPOSELY DECEITFUL when he told 'em that they had 200 years of Apes-
as-Pets. How could Cornelius have been so 'off' -- by virtually 200
years???
If Cornelius' line about "two centuries" was so off-the-mark, then
it's reasonable to deduce that the Authorities would ALSO consider it
likely that Zira's line ["... three more centuries..."] regarding the
period of Apes-as-Slaves prior to turning-the-tables is ALSO wildly
off-the-mark.
Why else would Breck -- during the scene where Caesar's forces are
using a blow-torch to cut through the door to his Command Post -- be
so frenetically insistent that THIS moment is the turning point for
Man?
"If we lose this battle, that's the end of the world as we know it!
We will have proved ourselves inferior -- weak! And all those
groveling cowards who are alive when the battle is over will be the
weakest of all! THIS will be the end of human civilization, and the
world will belong to a planet of apes!"
Why doesn't Breck say, "Don't worry, folks... we know that we get to
lord it over our Ape slaves for THREE CENTURIES, because of what Zira
told the Federal authorities, 18 years ago" instead?
Did Breck KNOW about that testimony? Of COURSE he did -- the footage
was kept in the Archives Section, and Breck knew of its contents when
he had Hoskyns (or whomever) go to the Archives and make him a little
videotape copy, so that he could play a portion of it to Armando.
Prior to Armando being interviewed at that time, Breck must have gone
over that old Presidential Commission evidence -- which included the
secretly taped testimony of Zira (when Hasslein had gotten her drunk)
as well as the testimony of both Zira and Cornelius when they told
about the Pet Plague (as evidenced by what Caesar was able to see
in "BATTLE" when he, MacDonald and Virgil went to the Archives
themselves, where the master-tapes were still there and able to be
viewed).
Breck knows all about what Zira and Cornelius told about their
society's "prehistory" -- about his own near-Past, Present, and near-
Future. He KNOWS about the discrepancy regarding the "centuries" that
Cornelius and Zira had 'predicted'(based on the 'prehistoric' "SECRET
SCROLLS") and the TRUE timeline of events. Apes did NOT serve Man as
replacement Pets for "two centuries" -- they served that function for
probably only TWO YEARS. Probably beginning in the year 1986, three
years after the deaths of the last dogs and cats. For TWO YEARS, Man
treated Apes as Pets... and then ENSLAVED THEM, beginning in 1988, so
that only THREE YEARS later -- in 1991 -- and NOT three centuries
later -- the enslaved apes were primed to "turn the tables" on their
masters.
THAT is why Breck is so damned sure that the showdown at the Command
Post is the battle that -- if the humans lose it -- will be the end
of human civilization as they know it. He KNOWS that 500-year
chronology of Cornelius and Zira is false -- either unintenionally
false, due to a MISTAKE on Cornelius' part, or INTENTIONALLY false,
due to a willful effort on their part to inflate by a factor of 100
the TRUE timeframe for the transition period of Apes into first Pet-
status, through their Enslavement, and thence to their OVERTHROW of
Man.
Here's another bit of relevant evidence.
It is ONLY in Cornelius' testimony to Hasslein (etc) that Man becomes
aware of "an ape named ALDO" who will presumably begin the Fall of
Man, by being the first ape to SPEAK -- the word "No!"
It was reasonable for the Federal authorities to assume that that
wouldn't happen for another 500 years, once the Plague began this
supposed 500-year timeline of events. But, when the enslavement of
Apes began LESS THAN A DECADE after the Plague, rather than 200 years
later, the Authorities would begin to worry that this "Aldo"
character would be around in the Present.
Why else would Breck -- prior to going to the auction to purchase a
NEW slave ape, Caesar, to replace his LAST slave ape -- have owned a
chimpanzee named ALDO?
Caesar blurts out "Lousy human bastards!" in response to witnessing
the brutalizing of a chimpanzee described as "a messenger" by HANDLER
1 and "For the Governor" by HANDLER 2, just before the waiters
protesting on this South Plaza "converge aggressively" on them.
Breck, the Governor of this unnamed city, has a "messenger" ape named
ALDO. Why does he own an ape with THIS name?
I think it's because he was clued in -- perhaps by the Feds -- that
there was this major problem with the TIMEFRAME of events. Breck
governs a city where Pet Apes had become enslaved two centuries
BEFORE they were supposed to have been. When apes started being
enslaved, conditioned, auctioned as slaves... the Feds may well have
met with Breck and informed him of this timeframe discrepancy. And,
in addition to bringing up the notion that the 500-year period had
already been proved false by Ape Slavery -- that meant that the
Revolution of the Apes might equally happen far EARLIER than they'd
been led to believe by Cornelius and Zira.
And... the name Cornelius mentioned -- the name of the ape who would
supposedly BEGIN the fight against Man by becoming the FIRST ape to
speak the word "No"... would be "ALDO".
Perhaps Breck, then, went out of his way to see if APE MANAGEMENT had
on file any record of an ape with that name registered in their
files. The apes aren't pre-named by APE MANAGEMENT -- otherwise Breck
wouldn't have had Caesar choose his own name -- "randomly" -- out of
that book. But, presumably, a human who had purchased an ape and then
given it the name "Aldo" would have to register that name with APE
MANAGEMENT. Thus, Breck, getting in touch with APE MANAGEMENT, would
inquire as to whether or not there's an ape named "ALDO" in his city,
somewhere...
... and, indeed, such an ape must have been found. A chimpanzee. And
Breck must have gone out of his way to ACQUIRE that ape. He probably
purchased it from its owner, reimbursing the man for the price he'd
spent at the auction.
And Breck, then, has in his possession a chimpanzee named "Aldo".
Perhaps he then tried to test it, to see whether or not it could
speak English... to see if THIS "Aldo" might potentially be the ape
Cornelius spoke so proudly of, back in 1973.
Whether or not this chimpanzee named Aldo could speak is irrelevant.
He must have DIED after suffering the brutalizing at the South Plaza.
Breck's ape slave is dead... and Breck needs to REPLACE him.
THAT'S WHY HE GOES TO THE AUCTION. To buy a replacement slave. He
buys another chimpanzee, for $1,500. And he revives an old tradition
of his wife's, and lets THIS ape name himself, by randomly choosing a
page from a book and stabbing a finger down. His new slave chimp goes
out of his way to 'randomly' pick out his OWN name -- the name only
Armando knows about -- the name "CAESAR".
Thus, Breck no longer owns an ape named "Aldo" -- and IF Mankind
should still have to worry about an ape named "Aldo" down the road,
it must be some OTHER ape, an ape given the name that the deceased
former chimp slave once had.
It is no coincidence that Breck owned an ape named "Aldo" prior to
purchasing Caesar at auction. He was aware of the NEAR-FUTURE
potential of Man's downfall. He's paranoid about it from the first
time we see him, when he, Kolp, Hoskyns, & MacDonald question
Armando. He went out of his way to acquire the chimp Aldo from its
previous owner because of the famous line:
"Keep your friends close... and your ENEMIES closer."
Breck knows the timeframe Cornelius and Zira gave Hasslein has
already proven to be bogus -- because Apes became enslaved in less
than a decade after the Plague, rather than 200 years afterwards.
He's paranoid about the prospect of Man's downfall -- which is why he
acquired Aldo, to keep an eye on him in case HE should be THE Aldo
that Cornelius spoke of. Perhaps he would've gone out of his way to
flag any FUTURE ape named Aldo if it hadn't been for the sudden
appearance -- and DISAPPEARANCE -- of Armando's circus chimp, who had
been heard to shout out "Lousy human bastards!" during that Labor
demonstration. The arrival of a TALKING APE -- owned by Armando, who
was in the Los Angeles vicinity back in 1973, when the Ape-onauts
were on-the-run -- leads him to speculate that somehow the baby Zira
gave birth to was SWITCHED with a chimp baby from his circus...
Thus, he no longer has to worry about an ape named "Aldo" -- he now
suspects that Cornelius and Zira were throwing Hasslein off-the-scent
in order to protect their own child. And they surely wouldn't have
named their own child to Hasslein -- guaranteeing its immediate
destruction. If Cornelius had mentioned "an ape named Caesar", then
Breck would've had his newly-purchased slave tortured into talking
immediately after he chose that name out of the book.
Breck knows that the 500-year timeframe was bogus. It's time you
other Changed-Timeliners realized it, too!
Patrick Michael Tilton
EARTH-TIME 12-13-2005
