As with any divorce, the first people to be hurt are the children—the spider-children, whose development into spider-men can be stunted without a couple of strong, genre movie producer role models to ensure that we cover every detail of it, again and again. And so, after the split of screenwriting team Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci to focus on their own individual franchise needs led to reports that Sony was having trouble getting The Amazing Spider-Man 3 to behave in a way befitting of a small, spindly, intellectual property that had enormous responsibility thrust upon it, the studio has now announced that it will just have to delay it until 2018. Maybe by then, it will have found a way to become the kind of Spider-Man Sony can be proud of, for the three to five years before it reboots it.