Fetch

I hope in the Otherworld that the cops don’t have the kind of surveillance technology our cops do. Then again, they have magic. So who knows?

Speaking of magic, I suppose I should figure out the rules of magic in this world soon enough. It hasn’t come up yet, because there have been more mundane issues like sick parents and gentrification to worry about; but at some point Fetch is going to use magic or get it used on him. My vague running guideline has been that “magic is hard” and “it requires a lot of practice and training”, but I haven’t set any other limits. Throughout most of the run of Fetch, before and during Otherworldly Goods, he has practiced what AS Byatt called “ersatz magic” back when that was the worst thing you could accuse JK Rowling of. (Re-reading that essay, I’m brought back to Scorsese-vs-Marvel arguments over fun-vs-good.) Fetch would wave his hands and voila! we’re on our way to Hell; or KAZAM! he turns a white supremacist into a Confederate soldier statue. One time he waved a cat toy and turned me into a woman. Back then I was playing fast and loose with magic to do political commentary. But now we’re in a world of (loosely) defined magic and the story needs a set of rules to be at least somewhat coherent. So I reckon I oughta work that out. Thank you for attending my Thinking Aloud TED Talk.