El Sandifer points out that we have to engage with this story in the way that audiences would've in 1964. That if you try to watch the whole batch at once you'll find yourself bored, that it can be tedious, but if you meet it on it's terms you might find something else entirely. One of the most talked about Hartnell stories, the Web Planet is once again Doctor Who experimenting. Experimenting in tone, form, and finally in monsters. If you go in hoping for a sweeping adventure you will be disappointed. But, if you go in stoned and with a pure heart you will find yourself transported to a place like no other. Alien landscapes and visions, things you've never seen and couldn't imagine. I'm not joking when I say it has more in common with James Cameron's Avatar than it does with modern Doctor Who. This is a story that transports you to a place you can't imagine, and it is absolutely unlike anything else. Star Trek could never.