#i hate the bahn

[daryfromthefuture]

i'm on the train and bored and still have an hour to go, so TIME TO RANT ✨️

and i'm choosing to make a list of bttf scenes i would have done differently/things i would have added because i like disagreeing with bob gale as if i owned this franchise

this is maybe an unnecessary change, but personally, i would have preferred if there were more instances of marty trying to warn doc about his death in part 1. we see it when doc demonstrates the model and then later twice on november 12 (before he writes the letter and then before marty has to leave), but i feel like it would have been more emotionally impactful if he had tried it more than that and only at the very end given up and written that letter.

SHOW DOC PLAY SAX. LIKE BRO. they could have had a concert 😭 imagine doc crashing the dance and playing sax with marty on stage (take this bullet point with a grain of salt, i'm only half serious. but still seeing doc play sax would have been badass)

the most obvious point of all obvious points, add the goddamn lone pine mall hug. the entire fandom agrees it's canon, and i remember a post going around speculating that they did indeed record a hug and keep the secret footage somewhere at universal lmao. but all jokes aside, this hug was SO necessary. every sane person would be waiting for it when watching the movie. marty is literally on the ground, bawling his eyes out, thinking his friend is gone, and us heartbroken audience members don't even get a hug to soothe our souls. i haven't paid much mind to doc and marty's relationship when i first watched bttf, but even past me was expecting a hug. good thing bobby fixed it in the musical

MORE JENNIFER. don't knock that girl out for 75% of the movie, please. she deserved better, and i wish bttf 2 would have put more emphasis on her as a character and how she's like and stuff. i hate to see it, but she's such a surface character that we barely know anything about (in my opinion), and that's just sad. she could very well have gone to the cafe 80s with marty and kept him grounded and stuff.

honestly, i maybe even would have kept that deleted 1985a scene with dave. we don't get to see marty's siblings at all in that timeline aside from a mention from biff, and it would have been interesting to see.

this is quite a jump in time, but i wish bob gale would have expanded on the scene in bttf 3 in which doc tells marty that he wants to stay behind in 1885 because of clara. this might be my fanfic brain speaking, but i see so much conflict potential. it would have been wild to see doc and marty argue, maybe even fight for the first time in the trilogy, and picture the emotional turmoil both of them were going through. if i had been marty, i would have snapped, not gonna lie. like, yeah, i get that doc found the love of his life but after all the lectures he'd given marty and after all those times marty was willing to rip apart the fabric of time just to keep doc alive, that man just goes "sorry marty, i met a woman i fell in love with, thanks for saving my life so i can live it out HERE. you go back home and idk clean my lab" >:(. this will forever be a pet peeve hahahaha

WHY does doc just FLY OFF on that DAMN TRAIN? i have to admit, it is an epic ending and feels sort of celebratory, but how can he say that he had to get his dog BEFORE even MENTIONING marty, giving him a photo, shake his hand as if they were work colleagues and nothing more, and then LEAVE? WHAT??? at least talk to him for a bit longer, tell your best friend where you've been, whether he will see you again and that you cherish him for god's sake. if you already had to give him false hopes by getting on the train only to fly off on the hoverboard later 🙄

[darkacademiaarchivist]

i am a victim of db shenanigans :(((

[tardis--dreams]

I like the tentative 'may' here

[maochira]

Deutsche Bahn? More like Desaster Bahn.

Sypnosis: Kaiser wanted to visit his family on the other side of Germany. But Deutsche Bahn can't be trusted. And even out of the train, everything goes wrong.

(A/N: this is all my own experience with tiny bits changed or censored. But this is supposed to be taken in a funny way so!! Feel free to laugh about it just as I do whenever I tell the story because it's fucking ridiculous. Let's just have fun about Kaiser suffering)

"This can't be fucking true." Kaiser mumbled under his breath as he left the train, looking around the central station he just arrived at.

The train ride was supposed to last for 4 more hours, but due to snow, the ICE train he was in until a few minutes ago couldn't continue anymore.

Actually, an hour earlier the train already was stuck for almost an hour at another central station, but continued with an announcement that said Kaiser's destination would be the last station his train could get to. It was a relief for the time being, but that got crushed a few minutes ago.

And now, Kaiser was stuck in the middle of Germany, at a central station he's never been to, in a city he's never been in. Not knowing what to do, he called Ness.

"Oh, hi Michael." Ness said when he picked up. "How is the traveling going?"

"Horrible." Kaiser's voice was filled with a mix of anger and frustration. "I'm stuck in fucking [city] because the ICE can't continue. I'm too far away from home to go back. But no idea how to get farther."

"Give me a minute." Ness said, he was already typing the Deutsche Bahn website into his browser. "There is a way for you to get to [destination], but instead of by ICE you'd have to go by the RE and S-trains."

Kaiser was walking around the station, not knowing where he was even going to. He just walked around so he wouldn't stand still in the same place.

"RE and S-trains? That's gonna take forever." Kaiser let out a frustrated sigh. "Whatever. I've travelled too far to go home now. Can you text me where I need to go?"

"Sure." Ness responded and sent the details to Kaiser.

"No fucking way. I'll be at [destination] at 11pm? That's five hours later than originally."

Oh, if Kaiser would have known this will only get worse, he would have travelled back home.

"Good luck." Ness said into his phone. "Get there safely."

"Thanks." Kaiser responded coldly and ended the phone call.

As he walked to the correct platform, he called one of the family members he was going to visit to tell them the entire disaster happening. And luckily, they told him he wouldn't have to get to [destination], they could pick him up in another city Kaiser would pass with his current route anyways. This meant he would have to travel less by RE and S-trains and didn't risk anything going wrong there.

Well, he didn't get to risk it anyways. His last train didn't come. And it was the last train of the night.

His first two did come. He only had to get the last one. But even after waiting and waiting, nothing. To make it even worse, the prior train had so much delay, it was now after 11pm.

To make worse things even worse, because of the cold temperatures, his phone's battery stopped working and he had no way of contacting his family or Ness.

"I'd rather die than continue this goddamned journey." Kaiser said to himself as he walked into the station's building. He was ready to complain at the information desk, but the long line of people standing there prevented him from it.

By this point, Kaiser had met two more people who needed to get to the same station as him, and after some discussion about what to do next, they decided to get a taxi. Because of the long distance, it would be expensive, but because they were three people they could split the payment.

But this also meant, he would be stuck in a car with two strangers and the taxi driver for at least another hour. Well, that's how long the ride should have taken if they wouldn't have been stuck on the highway for hours.

At least Kaiser's phone warmed up a bit and he was able to text his family and Ness what was going on. After that, the exhaustion made him fall asleep.

When Kaiser woke up, the car was stuck in the very same place as when he fell asleep. It made him think he slept for only a few minutes, but a look at the time told him it was 3 am.

3 am.

3 fucking am. And the traffic still hasn't moved a single bit.

The taxi driver ended up calling the police multiple times. And it turned out, a lot of truck drivers fell asleep during the bad traffic when they were waiting to continue driving, which made the traffic get stuck for so many hours.

And at the ungodly hour of 4.30 am, traffic finally started moving again and at 6 am, Kaiser arrived in [city], where his family members waited all night for him.

The moment Kaiser got into their car, he started complaining about the entire disaster. He was tired, exhausted, and done with everything.

[binch-i-might-be]

deutsche bahn is going on strike AGAIN. FOR THE THIRD TIME THIS YEAR. I SWEAR TO GOD IF Y'ALL MAKE ME MISS MY TRAIN I'M BLOWING SOMETHING UP

[inkbotkowalski]

Oh cool so I managed to enjoy a few months where for once, nothing in my body was/felt broken. Of course that couldn't last. Minor ass thing two weeks ago, and now my dead tooth has started acting up again and will have to be removed; just one day before my long and arduous trek North.

I just want to live my goddamn life and not constantly be on the phone for doctors' appointments, travel to doctors, wait in doctors' waiting rooms, get stuff from the pharmacy, be unable to do sports because some new thing has to heal. I'm so sick and tired of it. The sheer administrative labour this shit requires!

[mirrorthoughts]

I do love travelling by train, I really do, but the German train system is currently a clusterfuck. I have yet to take a train today that’s actually punctual <_<

And I’m already travelling since 8am. Actually I had to take a train about half an hour early to get to my other trains who all only go once every hour.

And the first one, that that I would have missed, was SO packed with people for 90% of the time (I was travelling for 4,5h from end station to end station) that it felt as if we were travelling in a sardine cab and not a train. And I was one of the lucky ones to actually have a seat!

The current train is actually alright - and there’s a lot more space and less people - but we already started 5mins late from the station (again first stop/end station of the whole drive). Though I will still get my next train afaik. I still have at least 15 minutes to change train even though we’re late.

Still. I love taking the train. But I hate how bad our train system has gotten.

[flopbftheo]

literally all of my trains got canceled AGAIN

[spiderziege]

are you having fun on the train.

ABSOLUTELY NOT

[shakespearerants]

Vermisse beim Zugfahrten wirklich die Coronazeit als sich niemand außer mir getraut hat mit den Öffis zu fahren. 2021 war dieser Zug LEER. Heute? Wir sind noch nicht mal an der ersten Haltestelle angekommen und mir ist schon jemand auf den Fuß gestiegen.

[felikatze]

i am going to smash my head through this train window

[tardis--dreams]

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[binch-i-might-be]

just found out no trains are going because there is light snow so. fucking pray for me that my two (2) trains will go at least

[paleangels13]

Fun...my train is at least 20min late which means I'll be late for my lecture and it's the one fucking lecture I have where they check the attendance to know which questions they can give you for an essay at the end of the semester....

I hate it here i got up for nothing and might not even make it to uni at all with that train 😭

[abba-enthusiast]

Hell is empty and all the devils are here on the S3 nach Olten

[sehrgefaelltmir]

lewy would cry of joy experiencing german public transport for the first time after playing for lech poznan

FBKDBFBF HELP 😭😭😭 thats my experience coming from ireland too tbh hes just like me fr. thats such a funny image lmaoooo