It's not absolute garbage, I suppose. It certainly compares favourably to something like Fear Her or some of the heavy-duty Chibnall ultraduds. It's not very good though. The idea behind it is really fun - a look at the Doctor from observers who would most certainly exist in this universe. There's a lot of good scenes where they are just cobbling together what they can of the Doctor and speculating what his story could be. Everything with the Absorbaloff and that really gross and bizarre ending (that implies oral sex, I guess?) does this story no favours. I didn't like it, but I didn't hate it or Elton, either. He was a good enough protagonist to follow.

There's a lot of ideas in this story I really like, they just aren't very well realized. It's really night and day compared to the "Doctor-light" episode they would go on to produce in Series 3 - Blink - which suggests to me this is yet another episode that can kind of be chalked up to the growing pains of the revived series.