In all the hubbub around Warner Bros.
Discovery’s streaming updates this week, nobody bothered to note that we’ve been here before.
This isn’t first time a version of the company — or at least a version of it — killed off a finished project for the sake of a write-off with no regard for its creators.Of course, it’s hard to look at the past when much there is to ponder in the present: “Batgirl” won’t come out but the scandal-ridden “Flash” somehow will; older HBO Max titles have been quietly booted from the service; executives on the earnings call proclaimed confidence in plans to jam together two vastly different streaming services into an amorphous new entity that still has no name.But let’s step back for a moment and recall some recent history: Remember HBO Go?Launched in the primordial streaming-war era of 2010, HBO Go
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