The idea, then, was that The Doctor would ask for training as a means to help Musashi in some way. With the choice among the First through Eighth Doctors, I chose the Eighth, partially because he’s one of my favorites on audio, but mainly because I could have his encounter with Musashi tie into his arc with the Time War and push him to take a more active role, making this a prequel to The Night of the Doctor.īut why would The Doctor get training from Musashi? So The Doctor had to have met Musashi before the events of that story. The only crossover with Musashi was a reference in the audio story “The Sontaran Ordeal” by Andrew Smith in which The Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) says, “I was trained by Musashi himself.” What I found was that there weren’t many Doctor Who stories set in feudal Japan in general. With my focus at the time in martial arts and in studying Musashi for another writing project, I started looking into whether or not The Doctor had ever encountered Musashi. The question was, what would it be? After over 50 years of history, what would be a new story? I jumped at the opportunity to write my own take on Doctor Who. I had been listening to Big Finish’s Doctor Who range for years, but didn’t know that they had a writing contest.
Original Submission (Story Summary & First Page Excerpt): Doctor Who_ The Ronin of Time_Submissionĭoctor Who- The Ronin of Time Short Story: Doctor Who_ The Ronin of Time_Full BEHIND THE SCENES- THE SUBMISSIONĭuring the 2020 pandemic, I discovered Big Finish’s Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity contest.
This was a 2020 submission to Big Finish’s Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity contest. Written, Performed, and Edited by Ben Wan Two legends collide as the Eighth Doctor helps the greatest samurai in history, Miyamoto Musashi, prepare for a duel, leading him to learn a valuable lesson that he’ll carry into the biggest conflict of his life: the Last Great Time War.
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