YMMV / The Silt Verses

• Funny Moments: After the war begins between the Peninsula and the Straits, Nesh-based reporter Chuck Harm mocks the Peninsulan troops, saying that their missile batteries couldn't hit a barn door. As a response, the Peninsulan troops drape a banner off of their cliffs facing the Straits that says "Come stand in front of the barn door, Chuck."
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • As cantankerous and cynical as she is, it's hard not to feel a little bad for Carpenter when you consider her past: her grandma was killed by the police due to her worship of the Trawler-Man; she was separated from her brother Em (who was then sent to prison) and was sent to a reform home to be "deprogrammed" (read: be indoctrinated into worshipping corporate and government-sanctioned gods like the Saint Electric); believed for years that the Trawler-Man drowned her brother as a way to punish her.
  • Faulkner may be a religious fanatic who sacrificed one of his own brothers and the motel clerk and is thinking of doing the same thing to Carpenter due to her wavering devotion, but it's hard not to feel sad for him. Between being understimated all his life, making himself smaller on purpose to his older brothers, being raised by a father that never even looked at him and then being abandoned by that father, it's obvious that he holds onto the idea of being the Trawler-Man's prophet due to it being the first and only thing that made him feel important in some way.
• Magnificent Bastard: Katabasian Mason, in the season two finale, reveals his true colors by exploiting Adjudicator Shrue's desire to prevent war to orchestrate the Parish's ascent to a Legal Faith, while also using Sister Thurrocks to get the Whither Mark from Faulkner, ultimately ensuring his own comfortable place in a seat of power. At least until Faulkner beats him to death.
• The Woobie:
  • Sid Wright, who is being forced to work 24/7 in his radio host job in the last 168 hours with only Grindinglord's coffee to keep himself awake as part of his sanctification process. By the end of Chapter 7, he is unable to close his eyes no matter how tired he is and is in complete agony.
  • Paige, who on top of feeling dissastified with her life and being a Love Martyr to her father, is unable to save her friend Vaughan and is Forced to Watch them and others being sacrificed by their company, and to top it all off, getting kidnapped by Carpenter and Faulkner after they try to steal her car.
  • Vaughan, once a young adult with dreams of making it big in the marketing world, ends up years later being chosen by their company to become part of a monstrous saint that's then killed immediately as part of a ritual of their company to welcome the new god.