Fringe gets completely unrealistic

[boytyperanma]

I mean doesn't Clue require a minimum of 3 players?

[AClockworkMelon]

I opened this, read the post, stared at it for about twenty seconds and then burst into laughter.

[Manduck]

Ditto minus the laughter. I think I missed a reference somewhere.

[Mahaloth]

For those uninformed, in the last Fringe, Olivia played the bowling alley guy in Clue and they played 1 vs. 1.

I asked my wife about this when I saw it, too. I think you can play with two, but I can't remember how it works.

I see Wikipedia lists both 2-6 players and 3-6 players.

[bouv]

I think you might have to modify the rules slightly, like when you play two-person Risk.

[Cat Whisperer]

Hee hee - my thought on reading the title of the thread was, "gets?" Then I got it.

So, seriously though, what is Peter's response going to be to what Walter tells him? Jim and I were having a bit of a discussion while watching yesterday - yes, Walter is genetically Peter's father, but he simply isn't Peter's father.

[Improvisor]

My wife and I did this exact thing a few years back. We went to Target to pick up a boardgame. I said we should get Clue since I loved that game when I was a kid. We bought it, went home, got some beers, set up the game, dealt the cards, and settled in for a game night. It literally dawned on both of us at the same time that you can't play with 2 people. So, we put it all away and just drank the beer.

The game is currently in the closet waiting until our son is old enough to play.

[Dallas Jones]

Originally Posted by Cat Whisperer

So, seriously though, what is Peter's response going to be to what Walter tells him? Jim and I were having a bit of a discussion while watching yesterday - yes, Walter is genetically Peter's father, but he simply isn't Peter's father.

I don't think Walter is going to tell him. I really hope we are not going to have a confrontation between Walter and Walternate where Walternate says something like, "Luke (Peter), I am your father!" Please assure me that isn't going to happen.

Peter can't be as clueless as he seems to be about this issue. The twist may turn out to be that he already knows who he is.

[HenryGale]

Originally Posted by ghardester

Peter can't be as clueless as he seems to be about this issue. The twist may turn out to be that he already knows who he is.

I would like this a lot.

"Uh... Why do you think I've called you 'Walter' my whole life?"

[Cat Whisperer]

OOOoooooh.

[control-z]

You can play Clue just fine with 2 players, but it's best when a young child is involved because there is no inference or logic involved with only 2 people.

[Snooooopy]

Originally Posted by ghardester

Peter can't be as clueless as he seems to be about this issue. The twist may turn out to be that he already knows who he is.

Well, nothing's out of the realm of the impossible on this show. But if I had an absentee father who also happened to have stolen me from an alternate universe, I'm not sure that I'd be able to hold my tongue for very long.

[DocCathode]

Originally Posted by ghardester

Peter can't be as clueless as he seems to be about this issue. The twist may turn out to be that he already knows who he is.

"Why do you think I let you rot in that asylum for so long? My home world had zeppelins dammit!"

[Meeko]

Originally Posted by boytyperanma

I mean doesn't Clue require a minimum of 3 players?

Wow, that is an incredibly good catch. I so did not catch that as I watched it.

Couldn't the third player deal the cards and the case file, and then not play the actual game?

[Meeko]

Originally Posted by HenryGale

I would like this a lot.

"Uh... Why do you think I've called you 'Walter' my whole life?"

Do we have an official answer to that?

[whatami]

My mom and I used to play two player Clue.

We would deal a dummy hand, and each time you asked to view a card, you could pick from the dummy hand or the other player.

It wasn't great, but it was fun.

[Improvisor]

Originally Posted by control-z

You can play Clue just fine with 2 players...

Yeah, but it's kind of like having sex with only one person involved. It's fun, but it's really kind of missing the point.

[elfkin477]

Originally Posted by ghardester

Peter can't be as clueless as he seems to be about this issue. The twist may turn out to be that he already knows who he is.

It's hard to imagine that he is completely clueless. Not only has he repeatedly denied that things Walter talked about happened during "his" childhood, he wasn't a baby or toddler when Walter stole him. He was seven. Very few people have no memories from before the age of seven, so unless Walter also managed to damage his memory, even if being taken was tramatic he should have incongruent memories from early childhood, if only about the other techology being different.

[TBG]

Originally Posted by elfkin477

It's hard to imagine that he is completely clueless. Not only has he repeatedly denied that things Walter talked about happened during "his" childhood, he wasn't a baby or toddler when Walter stole him. He was seven. Very few people have no memories from before the age of seven, so unless Walter also managed to damage his memory, even if being taken was tramatic he should have incongruent memories from early childhood, if only about the other techology being different.

They seem to make it sound like young Peter was so sick that he lead a bit of a sheltered existence, so maybe he didn't know about the zeppelins and cell phones.