The Silt Verses Season 1 Q&A / Retrospective

The Silt Verses

Eskew Productions Ltd

Science Fiction, Eskew, The Silt Verses, Junji Ito, Ligotti, Horror, Horror Fiction, I Am In Eskew, Folk Horror, Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

We sit down with the incredible Steve Shell, co-creator of Old Gods of Appalachia, to chat through Season 1 of The Silt Verses and answer some questions.

Content warning: at 31.41-32.16, sexual assault is mentioned in reference to divine cruelty in Greek myth.

Transcript: https://www.thesiltverses.com/transcript-qa

2.21: What was the inspiration for The Silt Verses?

7.34: How did Carpenter and Faulkner develop as characters?

12.00: Themes around religion?

14.51: How did you prepare for your roles?

18.59: What god would you choose / invent?

23.03: How is an episode created?

24.25: What is easiest and hardest about working on the show?

30.37: Was the show influenced by Greek myth?

32.58: What was the process for audio design?

34.28: Did Eskew prepare you for the Silt Verses?

38.00: Did Carpenter have an emo phase?

39.25: The show has lots of horrible noises - is the audio editor okay??

39.47: What was the significance of the character names?

40.38: Who’s your favourite character to write?

42.01: What’s been the most surprising / best fan reaction?

45.34: Was C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces an influence?

46.18: Is the show a road-trip buddy comedy?

47.51: Why did you choose an ensemble cast?

49.21: How did the religious wars begin?

50.41: What DnD classes would the characters be?

51.17: What’s your favourite kind of scene to act out?

54.15: What’s the best thing about playing Carpenter?

57.07: Why did you choose the mix of dialogue and prose?

58.32: How do you lose an entire town to the Wither Mark?

1.01.30: We all ramble about lived-in worlds for a while

1.06.30: Which mouths of the Trawler-man do Carpenter and Faulkner represent?

1.08.28: How do you feel about usage of the setting?

1.09.05: Why all the different accents?

1.13.15: What colour are Faulkner’s shoes?

This Q&A was recorded during London Podcast Festival in September, and features responses in person from Muna, Jon, and Méabh de Brun - B. Narr and our audio editor Sammy Holden drop in remotely to answer some questions as well.)

A huge thank-you to everyone who sent in their questions. For the purposes of time, there were some questions that we merged, and a few others that we just didn’t give entertaining or interesting enough answers to on the night - if we didn’t get to yours, please do feel free to drop us a message on Tumblr and we’ll do our best to pick it up!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Well, hey there, family.
0:06.8	Bet you didn't expect to find me here, now, did you?
0:10.0	I want to invite you all on in. Have a seat now.
0:13.5	Now, for those of you that might not know me, my name is Steve Shell, also known as the narrator from old gods of Appalachia.
0:20.5	But I'm not here to talk about the old gods.
0:22.8	I'm here to talk about gods like the Saint Electric, the trawler man,
0:26.8	and all those that hang above and below in the world of the silt verses.
0:33.3	Welcome to the silt verses Q&A.
0:35.4	As I said, my name is Steve Schell, and it is my honor and just a blessing to be here to host this Q&A, doing a little retrospective on season one of the Silt versus. I am joined by a good chunk of the Silt versus family, some if not all.
0:51.5	And as I understand it, some folks will be chiming in here and there to answer some
0:54.9	questions as they come and if they're specifically addressed, I'm going to let them go around the
1:00.1	roundtable and say their names and let you know who they are if that's all right with them. In the
1:04.2	order of which you are called, disciples, if you would, please. Hello, Steve. I'm John Ware. I am
1:09.5	the writer on the salt verses and the voice of David on I'm in an Eskew.
1:14.7	I'm Minna. I'm the other half of Eskew productions and I work on the Silk Verses and Eskew with John.
1:22.3	And I'm Maeve and I am the voice of Carpenter in the Silt Verses.
1:27.9	And yes, like you mentioned, we have a couple of other answers from BNR, who's not with us,
1:32.9	who's at home in Oklahoma, and our audio editor, Sammy Holden.
1:36.3	So, yeah, their answers will be dropped seamlessly in through the magic of audio editing.
1:42.2	Oh, welcome, family, welcome welcome one and all.
1:44.7	Now, I have to say, y'all, if you follow our show on social media,
1:49.6	you know that we are big fans of the silt verses.
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