Blood Over Water (TV series)/Trivia

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The following are minor details of interest about Blood Over Water.

  • Acting for Three: Zach Foster had to play the parts of both Mark and Aaron Stefflin. His back-end hidden behind a chair plays Clyde Spendelworth, since nobody else would assume the role.
  • Creator In-Joke: Several of these made it in.
    • The names Aaron and Mark were given to Zach's twins largely because Chris, the director, didn't like the names "Alvin" and "Mike" that others suggested. Their original last names of Monaco became the grounds for Cassie's character to be named "Monica," by which he tried to steal credit for what was essentially another classmate's idea.
    • "Stefflin" is a deliberate corruption of the Dozerfleet founder's real last name, which was chosen because he was unable to make it to one of the group meetings.
    • The Dozerfleet founder's character George was given that name because Zach was originally going to play a character named George Phillips-Stareemly in a sitcom called Mackley's Wardrobe, which would have featured Zach and Angelica having to share screen time with a puppet named Mutt Mackley, whose mannerisms in the series pitch made him a rip-off of ALF.
    • George's only-visible-from-the-mouth-down scene was inspired by the pitch for Kozerlen, in which this technique would have been incorporated into nearly every scene featuring Corvin the Caller.
    • The dream sequence where Aaron sees a flashback of Mark's past was inspired by Cassie's The Widower and the Conspiracy pitch, which utilized a similar plot device.
    • Angelica is given the fewest lines of dialog due to her adverse reaction to the thought of acting at all during the test run for Mackley's Wardrobe. She admits having to keep a straight face while interacting with a puppet made things even more difficult, to the point of not wanting any lines in Blood Over Water.
  • The Danza: Two of them. Chris Kennal is played by Chris Wilson, who originally used his full name and likeness for the character. Kyle Tugrass is played by Kyle Mayer.
  • Indian Summer: One possible justification for the rapid weather changes that happen throughout as a result of the production schedule.
  • Loose Canon: A reboot/remake of Blood Over Water as a novel or graphic novel series set is canon to The Gerosha Chronicles in the Cataclysmic Gerosha timeline (Earth-G7)...even though only Chris Kennal is mentioned in Sodality. All other events from the 2009 video(s) are treated as "this sort of happened, but not as depicted." Otherwise, all events specific to Blood Over Water are depicted as if they were happening in a universe of their own apart from the greater world of Gerosha. (Meaning, no Hebbleskins lurking about, except for a brief mention of Duke Arfaas being interested in buying Gleeful-N'-Young from Clyde. No Meethexos terrorizing Big Rapids. No Phexos or Marlquaanites. No superheroes/supervillains in the neighborhood. Navyrope makes a cameo, but a very brief one.)
    • This isn't the only work considered even somewhat canon to operate this way. Sorbet may be about a girl who has to stop a mugger with only the skills she earned from a recurring dream about killing zombies, but virtually nothing about her experience ends up having an impact on the lives and events of any other big name in the Gerosha universe.
    • Path of the Ming-Cho acknowledges the events of seasons 3 and 4 of Sodality as canon, but does very little to give back. Almost nobody directly featuring in that series is shown playing a role in Path. Instead, it's entirely a Sidequest involving (mostly) unrelated characters.
      • Even with the Gerosha Legends pack, it's not entirely necessary to know every single detail of every Sodality member's history to understand why they're in the Sodality. For example, not every Asshole Victim that Extirpon has ever punished is going to become important later.
    • The miniseries portrayed in the 2009 videos is canon to Classic Gerosha (Earth G-5) and Comprehensive Gerosha (Earth G-6).
  • Meaningful Name: The scientist in whom Aaron confides to expose the madness at Sleet Mountain is named...Monica Shelly. Her surname was chosen, of course, because of Mary Shelley.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: A majority of the cast and crew had this problem, to the point that there was a lot of arguing about exactly how the story would be put together.
  • Screwed by the Lawyers: One reason that the "coffee shop" scene in Part 2 was re-shot, in spite of the continuity issues it created, was to avoid trouble with Starbucks.
    • The other was because the teacher thought Zach and Chris' portrayal of their characters' relationship was "too cold" to justify the line about Mark and Aaron treating Chris "like family." Sleet Mountain, a very obvious edit in the Part 2 reshoots, and a bad dub-over of "Sleet" into Part 3, were all part of efforts to avoid defaming Ice Mountain.
    • The original "Late Matters Not" script during the Mountain of Cabal working title phase called for an explicit discussion of scandals surrounding protests of the Ice Mountain bottling plant in Stanwood, MI in The Nineties. While there was a car accident-related injury, cleanup fraud leading to murder was not a major issue in Real Life. Certainly nothing happened on the scale of what is shown in the video.
    • Intensive edits made to avoid potential lawsuits caused the mini-series to miss its deadline for actual broadcast on Bulldog Television by one day. Even on YouTube, several hurdles of description were needed to justify the use of Gene Michael Productions-made music for the background, as Blood Over Water is the last property the Dozerfleet founder owns that, due to being a Ferris State school project, was licensed to use GMP music.
      • The music in question includes various tracks from the album FREAK, located here. The end credits theme song is "Cheddarman [dead link]," off the album Adrenaline Rush.
  • Spear Carrier / Small Role, Big Impact: Angelica's character of Ashley Phillips has only two lines of dialog in one scene in Part 5. But it serves as a lure to get Mark to open the door. If not for that, the plot would have gone nowhere.
  • Working Title: The show has had numerous working titles, and was originally going to be called The Widower and the Conpiracy. It then became The Widow and the Conspiracy, then Kozerlen. Kozerlen was then re-worked to have a twin brother go missing, rather than the hero's spouse. This was because while Cassie was going to be cast as the heroine at one point, Zach took over the role. From there, it was renamed The Twin Conspiracy and later Mountain of Cabal; before being renamed Bogged and finally settling on its current title.
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