8 Reasons Not To Get Excited For Avengers: Infinity War

5. The Infinity Stones Have Made All Their Films Worse

There's nothing about all-powerful magical maguffins whose powers are only limited by the constraints of the plot, that doesn't make anticipation plummet. In every single film that an infinity stone has appeared it had been detrimental to the plot. In Avengers it made the third act confusing. Nuking the mothership made sense, but mind control being affected by a bump to the head, and the staff being able to penetrate the cube's forcefield because reasons? These were little moments where logic gaps briefly took the fans out of the action. In Thor: The Dark World, the ether had similarly unknown powers. It could do everything, but also not certain things. It can destroy the universe, but if it's in a person then it's ... wait... In Guardians of the Galaxy the purple stone destroys people but not certain people. Not if there's more than five of them. Or does it work via teamwork?Hang on ... if you put it in a hammer ... The problem with the stones is that their powers have to be constantly explained to the audience in order to them to understand whether there is danger or not. Almighty power isn't interesting to the audience unless they know how it works, and so far the stones have been handled in a really wishy-washy sort of way. With SIX stones in Infinity War, that sounds like a logistical nightmare. And speaking of difficult to understand...