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Rosario Dawson's Web Series, Gemini Division, Starts Today

Mon, 08/18/2008 - 8:32am by BuzzSugar
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In NBC's "first original online series," Gemini Division, Rosario Dawson stars as NYPD cop Anna who "gets entangled in a war between artificial SIMs life forms and the covert 'Gemini' group." Apparently the series will include 50 episodes (er, webisodes), with the first one coming online today.

I've seen the first episode, and the premise is interesting enough — especially since the series begins with the murder of someone close to Anna, which she then strives to figure out — but so far, the way the series is shot it looks so silly, it's distracting.

Anna provides a ton of exposition in the form of video messages, and her stories are illustrated by clips. Still, it's basically Anna having a one-sided conversation with the camera. It's really hard to be pulled in by her, too; I don't know if it's Dawson as an actress or the awkward material, but so far, this ain't grabbing me.

The series supposedly starts today on the Gemini Division website, but for now all that's available to the public seems to be the trailer, which you can check out if you read more.


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  • marcella's picture
    marcella
    1

    She looks a lot like Angelina Jolie in the photoshopped pic above! It's weird looking!

    15 weeks 15 hours ago Report Comment
  • supertramp's picture
    supertramp
    3

    i don't know that i'd watch the show but the ad looks so cheesy, no offense rosario

    15 weeks 11 hours ago Report Comment
  • suziryder's picture
    suziryder
    4

    I agree with supertramp, it looks cheesy. I won't be watching. Why is it that most webisodes are so poorly written/acted/directed? That artform will never take off if it's constantly neglected.

    15 weeks 10 hours ago Report Comment
  • Blue Tigerlily's picture
    Blue Tigerlily
    5

    I just watched the first "webisode" and it is REALLY stupid. And it hurts me to say it because I am a huge fan of Rosario.

    15 weeks 8 hours ago Report Comment
  • deletedthegame's picture
    deletedthegame
    6

    It's sooo important for the interactive TV genre that Gemini Division puts on a good showing. This is the kind of innovative product that exploits the interactivity of the internet and changes the lean back viewing experience of traditional TV into something far more engaging. Its success would bring much needed attention to the indie interactive web scene.

    Signing Rosario Dawson is a great choice, a sci-fi plot is a great choice but can be too geeky for the rest of us, the one real gripe I have though is geo-blocking the show limiting it only to a US audience, I think its a cop out and a failure to fully embrace the internet. NBC, why get only half pregnant?! In mitigation, I suppose with a huge marketing budget, Gemini Division does not have to rely on viral distribution like indies do. And it probably has found revenues in international distribution.

    It's not reported here but they spent $1.75M, that is HUGE for the web TV world but my hope is that a nice chunk of that is allocated to marketing (and you can count Rosario’s paycheck in that) to bring attention to the nascent interactive web series genre … indies like ours will gladly ride this coat tail.

    Stepping off the soap box and back into the slightly twisted mind games of www.deletedthegame.com, LOL!

    14 weeks 6 days ago Report Comment

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