How did Russell T Davies (RTD) pave the way for the Marvel Cinematic Universe with his televisual shared Whoniverse?

Back in the last few years of the noughties there were plenty of rumblings about the newly formed Marvel Studios pulling off some kind of shared continuity. Iron Man had had his one movie and then popped up in The Incredible Hulk, and I remember a few mainstream UK movie critics at the time questioning the point of that. In fairness to them, it seemed like the kind of sequel baiting a studio would often do when getting far too ahead of themselves. I mean were Marvel and at the time Paramount really going to launch not just one but several successful franchises off the back of a bunch of B-listers before mashing them together for a team up film? Surely audiences wouldn’t keep up with everything? Surely the perceived quality of one project would negatively impact another? It had all the makings of being a red hot mess. But I was an early adopter to the MCU hype right from the start, and the reason for that wasn’t just my love of Marvel. It was because I’d grown up as a huge Doctor Who fan, and that series had just proven that all of these promises were possible.

Russell T Davies revived Doctor Who in 2005 and stayed on until the turn of the next decade with the 2010 News Years Day Special - The End of Time Part Two. In those years, not only did he successfully relaunch Doctor Who for both new and returning audiences of varying ages, he launched two spin offs shows that expanded the world and offered something different yet still in the same vein. Much like the heyday of the MCU, it meant that fans never had to go more than a few months without more live action Who adventures, and just like the MCU there were plenty of perspectives and people to follow and fall in love with. They even had their own Endgame style finale that saw just about everybody and every loose thread come together to face the Thanos of all enemies in Davros, creator of the Doctor’s arch foes. Just about everything the MCU was good at doing from 2008 to about 2019, the Whoniverse managed to pull off from 2005 to 2010. The only difference was that the Whoniverse shared world took place on the small screen, and Marvel were trying to do it on the silver screen...

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