For some reason, whenever I watch The Web Planet, my eyes physically detect the cheap, hokey Menoptera costumes and the goofy Zarbi, but my brain decodes the signal in glorious CGI Technicolor.
I guess, for some reason, I don't see the episode that was filmed, I see the episode that was imagined.
Ah, well said! DW has never been that good at dfoing insect type creatures (see the giant fly in The Green Death or the title creatures in Planet of the Spiders) so I just sort of take the cheap FX's in stride and run with it. What they were basically doing is trying to retell an alien invasion of Normandy. I admire the early writers for even attempting uch a thing. Hell even with millions to spend on CG you'd have a hard time pulling this off convincingly. So I just give credit where credits due, dial back my critical mind and enjoy it for what it is.