Talk:George Taylor (Planet of the Apes)

Cleanup
This page needs formatting with headings and subsections, and pictures. Dirty Apes Talk 19:56, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * So what's stopping you from making them? Zephyrad 00:09, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: "Colonel"
The article looks over Taylor's role in the series overall. When he was first called "Colonel" in the series is irrelevant, and to draw such a distinction is to split yet another hair needlessly, the same as numerous changes made to the POTA articles by this same unregistered, single-purpose editor (who appears here under at least three different URLs, but the MO is always the same), over the last year or so. American astronauts of the time (1968/1973) came from military backgrounds, even in fiction. It makes sense that neither Taylor's crewmembers (who called him "Skipper", and if it's so important to this editor to make such a fuss, why didn't he put that in prior to now?) nor his captors would call him "Colonel", under the circumstances of the story; nonetheless, that was Taylor's rank in the SERIES. Could this person at least register? Zephyrad (talk) 11:29, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Well Taylor's role in the series occurs in the two films he appears, Planet and Beneath. In those two films he never refered to or credited as 'Colonel'. In Planet is he credited as George Taylor and in Beneath just as Taylor. But not as 'Colonel' Taylor. So it makes sense to list him as he is credited in the first film in which he appeared.

Just as a point of comparison, in the wiki entry for Obi-Wan Kenobi he is not listed as 'General' despite being refered to as General Kenobi in two of the Star Wars films (A New Hope & Revenge of the Sith). Instead he is listed as his character is credited in the films, simply as Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Also, in the two films in which Taylor appears he is not written or protrayed as being a military man. The fact that in a later film in which he doesn't appear he is refered to as 'Colonel' is more of a continuity error than anything else but still should be noted in the context of that film only.

In regard to your personal attack on me, My MO it is accuracy, nothing else. The information in the articles should accurately reflect what is presented in the films and not one person's opinions, assumptions or theories. And several American astronauts from that period (1968/1973) were civilians such as Neil Armstrong and Ronald Evans both of whom walked on the moon.

As far as me not making the change before now, I had never noticed it before now. If I had I would have made the change sooner. And it is you who are the one who is kicking up a fuss about this, not me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.244.74.13 (talk • contribs)