5 question meme - the return ;)

[teyla]

tinnny asked me another five questions.


1. Why did you choose your course of study?

Oh, hm. I OD'ed on Emergency Room? No, no, I have a better reason than that ;).
Well, I guess I was influenced by several things. When I was in sixth grade, I was diagnosed with diabetes, and spent several weeks in the hospital. Ever since, I go to a check-up every three month. Over the years, I got to know the inner workings of hospitals and the job of being a doctor. I talked about this with my doctor, and she said that she knows many people who were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes who went into medicine. It's obviously not uncommon.
Then there's the fact that both of my parents started out with medicine (even though they both decided on something else in the end), and in his job at the LMU, my dad gives physiology lectures and examines med students (I will have to go to his lectures *is terrified* ;) ). So, I got aquainted with that course of study pretty early in my life.
I never disliked the idea of becoming a doctor. I like the idea of being able to fix sick people. It sounds like a cool skill to me (no, I'm not a bossy control freak, what makes you think I am?? ;) ). Because I'm a lazy, lazy person, I disliked the idea of going to med school for six years, which is why it took me until after I had finished school to decide that I actually want to become a doctor.

2. Which small fandom do you love and think a lot more people should know about?

Hm. Well, I haven't been in many fandoms, and haven't read much fanfiction in other fandoms beside House and Enterprise (and SGA). I just read a bunch of Good Omens fanfics neery recced, and I think I'd like the idea of reading more. Crowley/Aziraphale immediately presented itself as a wonderful chance of an OTP in my dirty slasher's mind ;). But since Good Omens is only a book, nothing as addictive as a TV show or a series like HP or LotR, I don't think there's much fanfic for that fandom. So I'd say I'd like more people to know about that fandom ;).

3. What fandom/pairing/other made you notice slash for the first time?

I started out with the classics: K/S ;). Well, not exactly. I knew that there were people shipping Kirk and Spock (even though I didn't call it "shipping" then ;) ), but I didn't read it. When I started out in Enterprise, I was still pretty slash-o-phobic. Then a good friend of mine, tli, ventured into slash with a short Tucker/Reed one-shot called "Ex Astris", and I was doomed. I made a 180° turn from half-hearted Het shipper to all out slash fanatic. I have read very little Het or Gen ever since ;).

4. What do you like most about your home town, and your home country?

Oh, hm. Hmm. Can I opt for nothing? :P
I never really understood how people can identify with a place just because they happen to have been born there. This is in no way meant to sound snotty, I just never felt the sentiment myself. I was born and have lived near Munich all my life, but I've never felt anything more towards the place than a certain sense of familiarity. I don't think I would miss it if I moved away. I didn't miss it when I moved away for a year. It's not that I hate it. I just don't particularly love it, either.
And Germany - hm. I like the way people over here are careful with what they say. Not all of them, of course. But due to our history, mindless racist/intolerant comments are not as common in every day life as elsewhere. But this small positive factor is drowned out by all the things I don't like about Germany. I don't like how small it is, and how crowded it is. I don't like the way people are always pissy in public. I don't like the stiff fake profundity of German media (Just watch German movies like "Das Experiment" and you'll know what I mean). I don't like German literature (Thomas Mann, Guenther Grass...). I don't like the German weather.
This is not to say that I don't like the German people in general, or think they are worse than people from other countries. I just don't like living in Germany. I don't know if I'd be any happier elsewhere, due to the fact that I've never lived elsewhere.
If I lived elsewhere, though, I guess I would miss the no-speed-limit thing on the Autobahn ;).

5. If you could change the ending (say, the last season) of a favorite show of yours, which show would need the most improvement and how would you let it end?

Ahhh! Enterprise. If I could, I would delete all of season 3 and 4 from the collective fandom memory and make Paramount hire a bunch of fangirls to write new episodes. No matter what they came up with, it'd always be better than what they did in those last two seasons from Hell.
Hm, how would I let it end? I'd throw out the Xindi plot. Politics in Star Trek is fine and everything, but I don't need that kind of ham-fisted symbolism. I'd do more with the TCW, maybe have the Enterprise be sent on a mission from Daniels or something, or have them get lost in another timeline. Something cool and nifty that involves a lot of fake spacetime physics ;).
As to on-screen pairing, I'd totally ship Trip and Malcolm. This is Star Trek. They had the first black-on-white kiss, they are the reason slash exists. They should fucking well get the first gay on-screen pairing in sci-fi history. What bugs me most about this is that Reed was considered to be characterized as gay, or at least bi. But they didn't do it. *grr*