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Re:The future of Currents and the next generation of collabo... by jsiepkes on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:52AM (#30301460)
I think that at somepoint Google will find itself in a position TV stations found themselves in around 2008-ish; TV stations had created the habbit of cancelling everything that wasn't an instant hit in it's first season. In turn this became a self-fulfilling prophecy because people wouldn't watch the first season. They didn't want to be left out in the cold with some season 1 cliffhanger which was never resolved because the series never got renewed for a second season.

...AND YES I'M STILL PISSED ABOUT FIREFLY!

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Re:The future of Currents and the next generation of collabo... by oxfordmale on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:10AM (#30301652)
This issue will impact Netflix as well. During lockdown I watched a few series that were at season one only, and a lot didn't get renewed. Now I only select series with at least two seasons.
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Re:The future of Currents and the next generation of collabo... by imglorp on Friday February 11, 2022 @10:27AM (#30302497)
Almost as bad is when they blink at the contract table and move some franchise to another streaming provider while you're in the middle of watching it.
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Re:The future of Currents and the next generation of collabo... by Macha on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:00AM (#30301558)
Netflix has certainly got into this position for me.
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Re:The future of Currents and the next generation of collabo... by gambiting on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:05AM (#30301612)
With Netflix I feel like it's the opposite even - you have to just force yourself to stop watching any of their originals after 2nd maybe 3rd season at most because it always, inevitably ends up deteriorating in quality massively. I don't know or even have a theory as to why that happens, but so far it has held true for me.
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Re:The future of Currents and the next generation of collabo... by Aethylia on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:12AM (#30301671)
Here's my theory!

Perhaps the writers write the first season fully aware of the probability that they won't be asked to write a second. Then, when it's a surprise hit, they are less sure of what to do following the events of the first.

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Re:The future of Currents and the next generation of collabo... by HWR_14 on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:16AM (#30301716)
AFAIK, Netflix decided that they only were going to make 2-3 seasons at most, and only locked up talent for that long. Therefore, some behind the scenes changes after season 2-3.

I don't know whether that's still their assumption.

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Re:The future of Currents and the next generation of collabo... by fjabre on Friday February 11, 2022 @10:54AM (#30302847)
+1 for Firefly. At least they kind of finished it with the movie. I'll always be a browncoat.
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Re:The future of Currents and the next generation of collabo... by alisonkisk on Friday February 11, 2022 @08:56AM (#30301510)
Currents (G+) is over 10 years old.

TV shows stopped doing season cliffhangers, which is good.

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Re:The future of Currents and the next generation of collabo... by ltultraweight on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:02AM (#30301582)
According to @killedbygoogle on twitter[1] it's not 10 years old.

[1] https://twitter.com/killedbygoogle/status/149184004005339136...

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Re:The future of Currents and the next generation of collabo... by zamadatix on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:10AM (#30301653)
Currents used to be "Google+ for G Suite" but Google+ shut down in 2019 so it was renamed to Currents at that time. I don't think it was over a decade old though, that sounds like a previous product also named Currents that was shutdown prior to Google+ for G Suite being a thing.
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Re:The future of Currents and the next generation of collabo... by teraflop on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:13AM (#30301686)
You might be thinking of the old Google Currents, which was a completely different product (a "digital newsstand" app) with the same name.
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