First off, yes, the animation is extremely limited in this series. Expect a lot of repeated shots and minimal movement. It's almost more like an "enhanced comic book" at times rather than a full fledged cartoon. This comes with the territory of television animation from the 1970s. However the art itself is usually not bad to look at, and on a few occasions shows flashes of beauty and brilliance. Where the show really shines however is the writing, which is surprisingly ambitious and mature for the time.
In re-imagining the PotA franchise to be more like the original novel with relatively technologically advanced Apes. RttPotA definitely falls outside of the timeline of the original film pentalogy and the live action TV series. But also utilizes fan-favorite characters like Cornelius and Zira to create a world both familiar and fresh.
Be that as it may the show is far from perfect, sometimes the limited animation gets tiresome and the actor who played Bill is so wooden I could almost swear I heard him confusedly deliver a line then turn the page in his script once or twice.
But overall this is an excellent effort and as someone who was not yet born when it aired and had not seen it until the DVD release I was very pleasantly surprised by how much of the genuine PotA feel they were able to capture for the Saturday Morning Audience. Just be sure to watch the series in the originally intended chronological order (the default on the DVDs) rather than the jumbled-up original air-dates, and GO APE!
In re-imagining the PotA franchise to be more like the original novel with relatively technologically advanced Apes. RttPotA definitely falls outside of the timeline of the original film pentalogy and the live action TV series. But also utilizes fan-favorite characters like Cornelius and Zira to create a world both familiar and fresh.
Be that as it may the show is far from perfect, sometimes the limited animation gets tiresome and the actor who played Bill is so wooden I could almost swear I heard him confusedly deliver a line then turn the page in his script once or twice.
But overall this is an excellent effort and as someone who was not yet born when it aired and had not seen it until the DVD release I was very pleasantly surprised by how much of the genuine PotA feel they were able to capture for the Saturday Morning Audience. Just be sure to watch the series in the originally intended chronological order (the default on the DVDs) rather than the jumbled-up original air-dates, and GO APE!