War For The Planet Of The Apes: 10 Things That Must Happen

7. Caesar Saw It All Coming

Obviously, it's not as though a movie series with the ending essentially in the title has to do a whole lot of foreshadowing to prep the viewer. But it would be nice if the big conflagration to come was made to look prophesied by other elements in the preceding movies. The best way to do this would be through Caesar, of course. At different points in both movies, he seems to approach human/ape interactions as problematic and best avoided. It's almost as if he knows no good can come of them, and he constantly has a look on his face as though maintaining harmony is a losing battle. In particular, he's all too quick to accept the reality that "human will not forgive," so there's already a clear whiff of fatalism in the air. In all likelihood, this is not just a coincidence, and there will be some focus on Caesar reacting to the war as inevitable. It would retroactively inject even more drama in those already frosty diplomacy scenes in Rise and Dawn.