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Just realised this is 'going viral'. I found it in my Facebook memories from many years ago, but a rather rude person on here advised me it originally came from @favsquote.bsky.social so give that person a follow! Good stuff.

I’m reading this is Benoit Blanc’s voice

APE PLANET: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

Homer Simpson discovers he's on Earth - except he doesn't get it

Makes more sense than the Tim Burton version

It does if you get the idea that travel through the time portal reverses stuff so the later you go through, the sooner you arrive. But it was never explicitly explained (not really any place to do it) so most viewers were just confused. Of course, this could also just be my own head canon.

The original finale of Evangelion made more sense than the Thane's Monument bit

Dirty thieving apes!

I think it's really interesting how the Statue of Liberty is seen as conclusive proof that this is Earth *but the apes weren't*. "What level of similarity proves identity" is so vibe-based! (IRL recognizeable species would be diagnostic. OTOH in Star Trek the Declaration of Independence wasn't!)

Common origin via panspermia > the chance of independently building exactly the same statue?

IRL, absolutely not. Remember, all known modern life on Earth descends from a common ancestor - panspermia would yield alien life at least as different from us as species differ from each other here. Even convergent evolution wouldn't do it, it results in superficial similarities not deep copies.

*waves vaguely in the direction of Star Trek* lol

Now that I think of it, the apes should all have been crabs to make it believable

Where do you think they came from? Anyway, 30 tons of copper might be really valuable to them.

That's why I brought up Star Trek though, it's so wildly inconsistent on this. Later Trek usually holds that aliens converge on the humanoid form but are deeply different "under the hood". Early Trek handwaves the literal Declaration of Independence & US/USSR rivalry as parallel development.

It's really about what plausibility you're happy to sacrifice for the story you want to tell - OG Trek liked telling "alternate history" stories on alien planets, later Trek invented the Holodeck for those but still used aliens to tell human social parables (using human actors, kinda critical there)

If it was Earth, he would've seen the Moon. 🙃

I suspect all the robins, chickadees, wrens, squirrels, owls, garter snakes, jackrabbits, raccoons, and possums would be a giveaway.

Or, you know, speaking English.

Well, the apes (and humans) could have colonised a suspiciously Earth-like planet. But they probably wouldn’t have brought possums along.

You’d be surprised at the shit animals colonists bring with them (see New Zealand)

Ask an American if raccoons would be high up the translocation list.

Or the apes and humans. Sure, the apes are talking and the humans aren't, but they are obviously Earth apes and humans.

I saw the film in a drive in. . . This is funny.

This really needs more Zardoz

It was retaliation for someone stealing all their apes.

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I love this

to be fair,I would've thought the same thing

You've never seen the famous sandstone cliffs of new york?

Republican logic

Would make it slightly more in line with the book.

It would be interesting to see a Planet of the Apes movie that was based on the book instead of the late 60s/early 70s movies.

The book has an incredible twist ending! Couldn't believe it even I read it

It’d be hard to film that ending though.

God, the scene is messed up.

'They also stole a doll and a portion of New York! What the hey apes?'

This is amazing

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