I wonder if Owen is a character that can't be--well, is vastly less likely to be--properly appreciated by non-adults?

I'm still surprised I didn't remember him—so many of my favorite characters were not children/YA when I was a child and Owen especially has that distracted, past-caught, unexpectedly sharpening quality that tended to interest me. What I remembered was that Bran had an adoptive father in the present day, he was in the story somewhere. And the rest of it, bzzzt. I'm wondering now what else from the other books I've missed.

thanks to a less-awful-than-usual animated TV show which has the fictional multiverse's least-pirate-like pirates. (Chad's theory is that they're pirating digital entertainment, which is why gold keeps appearing out of thin air.)

Hee. Which show is this?