I watched this for the first time back in March and actually posted about it here, so no real reason for me to watch it again right now.
While I’m thinking about it, I should submit the quote I had in there:
PRAPILLUS: Hilio, the Menoptra have no wisdom for war. Before the Animus came, the flower forest covered the planet in a cocoon of peace. Our ancestors carved temples like this for resting places of our dead, but that was all the work we did. There were no other plans to make. Light was our God and we existed in light, flying above thought. Our banishment has taught us of enemies and weapons, and my captivity has taught me strategy. They tore my wings from me and I felt, as you feel, that all was lost. But if our Gods favour our survival, we must learn their lesson and use our brains and not our wings. This Earth woman we must trust, for she can show us how to exist without wings, to survive and flourish. What should we do?
Pretty much stand by what I wrote, in any case. The serial had great character moments early on between the TARDIS team, and they had good ideas, and they had a bunch of people in silly costumes running around saying “Zarbi! Zarbi! Zarbi!”.
I prefer them being too ambitious and failing, like they did here, to not being ambitious enough, so I’m good with them doing stuff like this.