Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 arrives in May 2018, whilst Part 2 won't be shown in packed-out cinemas until a whole year later in May 2019. Usually that would be all well and good, it's a pretty short break between sequels after all, but when you consider that they're due to be shot back to back it starts to feel like a frustrating choice. In an ideal world, Infinity War Part 1 would arrive just before the Summer, whilst Part 2 would become the Christmas blockbuster of 2018. Instead we're getting Ant-Man and The Wasp and Captain Marvel breaking up the action of the galactic smack-down. Clearly it's an attempt to boost the profiles of both a new property and the studio's worst performing hero to date, banking on the idea that people will flock to both for clues to the (presumably) ongoing Infinity War, but it's hard not to see how all the films involved could suffer for it. For a start, any momentum built up towards what's surely to be a cliffhanger ending to Part One will surely peter out to nothing once Paul Rudd brings the spectacle back down to a molecular level and we have to get acquainted with another new hero. The two films between Infinity Wars are also in something of a lose-lose situation; if they ignore what's going on in the wider MCU and it will be jarring after what should be a world-shattering ending to IW Part 1, but if they embrace the wider story they could become beholden to it and struggle to justify their own narrative under the weight of Thanos' big shiny glove. Obviously we don't yet know how it's all going to work for certain, but it would certainly have been neater to clear the floor before any shots are fired in the Infinity War.