Call me a time-traveling skeptic. Call me whatever you want (Joshie-Woshie might be stretching it). But I found reading this primary document from 1998 was difficult without being cynical and realizing that from a modern perspective it is really not that amazing someone would let you write your thesis on Xena (my crazy Film professor is letting me write a transmedia experimental script as my final project). Film and Media Studies has become fairly common-place in American universities. Although still burgeoning, the department is gaining respect as an academic, analytic lens for viewing the world. And why? I would say the increase in diverse means of communication and the complexities of modern media consumption are highly responsible. That is what Rowett is really trying to point out. She is using her vantage point from the beginning of a trend to note a dynamic, stomach-like digestive relationship between fan and creator. Fans may not feed creators their ideas, but they certainly provide a reaction and an after-effect. Which leads me to a meta-self-reflexive question? Am I a fan, in an objective sense, of Rowett’s article? Am I providing a digestive feedback to her 10-year old article and building upon its history? And in ten years will some little schmuck be writing an article entitled, “They’re letting you write your senior thesis tweat about that? Probably. He probably will.