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Punchinello writes...

Hello Greg and Gorebash.

This post should probably go under "ramblings."
I have only recently discovered this page, and this will be my first posting here. I am extremely pleased to find that people still remember this show and ,evidently, appreciate it as much as I did. When the show first aired I watched with a zealous enthusiasm. I appreciate what you are doing, even more. I wish to offer you my personal thanks for this effort towards bringing the show back, and providing a medium for dialogue about your creation. Thank you.

I almost feel bad about saying this; but the characters I was most interested in discussing were not gargoyles at all. It was your Captain of the gaurd at Castle Wyvern, that I identified with, the most, in your series. Further, if there was one character that I found most compelling; it had to be Owen Burnette. The scene in which he casually lowers his hand into that cauldron, and then equally casually reacts to it's stone composition with little more than professional curiosity, is something which is permanently ingrained into my mind. I LOVE that scene.

Perhaps, then, you can imagine my dismay at discovering that Owen (or Puck) does not have his own heading within your topics files. Perhaps this post will inspire sufficient dialogue on the matter to earn him one. I can hope.

And so, a quesion about Owen:
I had observed a quality in Owen that might have been described as unnatural. This would have been before the revelations about him vindicated such a position. It seemed to me that his servitude to Xanatos went beyond the character of a simple employee status. He was too sophisticated. He was seemingly well educated. A sort of maudlin academic. He was adept at such a diverse array of skills. He possessed this incredible proficiency with technology and he was a trained martial artist. Why was he Xanatos' assistant? He could have had his own empire.

Even before learning his origin, I had begun to liken him to a kind of quasi-archetype that can be observed across cultures. I am uncertain of whether or not it has a name. It can be found in the idea of djinn being trapped within oak or silver, and bound to the will of a human master. It can be observed again in the story of Puss In Boots. Both of these anecdotes revolve around a "magical" figure who is endentured to an otherwise normal person for a period of service. After Owen revealed himself (which was still the most amazing shock) I began to wonder if you han not intended such a reading. You seemed to inject a number of old mythologies with new content in the series, so the reading did not seem so implausible.

Did you intend a reading of Owen as a supernatural character, from the beginning of the series?

Were you influenced by the old mythologies I mentioned, when you concieved of the charachter?

There is a next, most obvious question. I fear, however, that it would fall into the realm of something you could not answer. I intend to post it separately so you will not need to disregard the entire message.

Many thanks,
Punchinello

Greg responds...

As I've said before, I knew something was up with Owen from the beginning. And so yes, I had a notion of the kind of archetypes you are describing. Discovering he was Puck came as something of a shock, mitigated by the rightness of the revelation.

For more information on Owen, check the FAMILY XANATOS archive. For more information on Puck, check the CHILDREN OF OBERON archive.

But what the hell, I'll start a new category for him now.

Response recorded on July 10, 2000


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