DW: The Web Planet – rewatch

Hey Guys,

welcome to the story The Web Planet. It is a story over six episodes. The Doctor, Vicki, Ian and Barbara are landing on the planet Vortis with aliens in forms of giant insects. Ahistory and other novelisation place the story around 20.000.

Always the same

Like all the other Doctors the first doesn’t know what is going on in the TARDIS. This story is a story like this. The TARDIS doesn’t do what he wants. She stays at this planet and Ian and the Doctor go out to find the reason. What I like about this is Barbara. She is a very intelligent woman and she knows that there is a logic answer to what is happening to her and her bracelet – for me it looks like magnetic – but she doesn’t know the answer yet and it frightens her and she is not afraid to admit that.

Missing

The Web Planet is one of the stories that never really got me or I didn’t got the story. When you listen to Big Finish not just the stories but the interview you get a lot of opinions about different Doctor Who Stories. I actually don’t remember who said it but same one was talking about how great The Web Planet was and what this loved about it. So when I rewatched it wanted to see what this person saw. Sadly for me I didn’t. It wasn’t the costumes or that the stories wasn’t good. Somehow it is really hard for me to watch it. I don’t why or what it is that makes this story so uninteresting for me.
I am not a big fan of the costumes and you actually have to see it in the time it was made. Even I couldn’t remember who was who of this Menoptera. Everyone of them was slightly different. The story about an Invasion race and the fight against is great.

So the story has great things but still something seems to be missing for me. I still think that everyone should watch it. Even when the only reason is that there are just three stories left with Ian and Barbara and one of them The Crusade is partly missing.