For me this is the first bad Eighth Doctor Big Finish story. I wouldn't call the performances outright bad, but it feels to me McGann and Fisher don't really know what to make of the material, and I can't say I blame them. It's also a shame to have the Brigadier's first meeting with the Eighth Doctor be one featuring dialogue and elements that feel like they were written by a horny teenager. The story also meanders quite a bit, and the Brigadiers occasional narrating of the messages he is typing saps whatever pacing there might have been. As for Brigham, he could have been a really memorable larger-than-live villain but ends up being pretty tedious.

One aspect I almost liked, despite amnesia being an overused trope, was the idea of the Doctor as an amnesiac in an asylum with a cellmate claiming to be the Doctor and having all his memories. This could have made a pretty good regeneration story, but here its stretched to breaking point in an already overlong story.