The biggest issue for me was how did the apes launch the recovered spaceship? A rocket able to launch that thing into orbit isn't something you can build in your back yard.
The technological infrastructure required to build such a rocket is way beyond the technology the Apes are shown having (yes I know that low tech in the original movie was for budget reasons but it is a major plot issue)
On the original movie, the issue seemed to be that they had landed in the water, implying that they could've launched if it had been intact on dry land.
shareTrue. However, the "ship" in this film has no engines. I?t's only the nosecone. It would never be able to lift off.
I don't even know enough to know how much I don't know. Ya know?
The size of the ship was probably due to the budget.
shareSpace ships of the era were built in stages. What is seen in Escape is most likely just the re-entry capsule, all the other stages having been used and discarded.
shareSpace ships of the era were built in stages. What is seen in Escape is most likely just the re-entry capsule, all the other stages having been used and discarded.
So why did Taylor's jettison the aft stage this time? One reason I thought of was that the ship's aft stage wasn't designed to jettison until it had returned to Earth. Basically, I'm speculating, the ship's engines were designed to be re-used once for lift off to come home. Then it jettisoned before re-entry when it landed a second time. Whatcha think?
Also both Taylor's and Brent's ships hadn't been properly guided in to land. They emerged from the wormhole or whatever, fouling up the ship's automated systems. Possibly when the apes took it back through the disturbance, the systems corrected themselves enough for a normal landing approach.
shareWhen the ship sinks Taylor says, "OK We're here to stay". That implies that if the ship hadn't sunk it had the capability to be relaunched. So the apes didn't need to build a rocket. And it is really not a major plot issue just a minor device to get the apes to the 20th century. Can't figure out why so many obsess over it. Really misses the point of the film.
shareThe point is that they knew nothing of space travel. Hell, even air travel would be impossible to the considering their shock at a simple paper air plane. The how would it fit in where Milo found and repaired the ship? He would have had to see the ship crash and the humans exit from it to even begin to under stand the basics of it.
shareAs Cornelius states, Milo only half understood it. Plus Taylor notes at the beginning of Planet that the ship was run by computers. The whole thing is just a plot device to get the apes to the 20th century and not really important at all. Don't understand why so many fans fixate on it.
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