Part of the problem is we haven't even really successfully defined "intelligent" in a way that's meaningful for most animals. I've seen the videos too, of course, but I'm not sure that simply being able to escape from things means you're "intelligent" when it could just as easily be instinctual or reflexive.

That has so clearly been shown not to be the case I don't understand how seven episodes in people are still saying this.

I thought it was pretty clear that EVERYONE has a double in the Lodge…it's not like he was "created," he was just there, just like the Man From Another Place (now tree) and Laura were all shown to have doubles.

Except that Coopelganger is clearly not "possessed" by BOB, at least not in any way similarly to the way Leland was, so we know nothing about his MO.

Or an angry tree.

And you're blocked.

"Once I get old enough." Good lord, you are a presumptuous twit.

Pretending you're a psychic who can suss out the motives of a film and television director whom you've never spoken with isn't "adult commentary," it's delusion.

I fail to see how a headline imputing dark motives in one of the very rare situations where there was unanimous bi-partisan agreement can be blamed on anyone other than the AV Club headline writers.

^^^^THIS^^^^

Whatever it was intended to be, it was absolutely tone-deaf. The fact that it's indistinguishable from something that could show up on Breitbart should have been a clue.

Headline: "AV Club Sticks it to Well-Known Right-Wing White Supremacist Perverts Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Sonia Sotomayor."

It also happens to be applied indefinitely, which is absurd, especially since there is no real evidence that the majority of people on the registry are going to be any more recidivist than any other felon. If you're going to make it impossible for someone to ever reclaim a law-abiding life after prison, you may as…

Yeah, it did come across wrong, since it was a reply to my comment. ;) No worries.

By all means, elaborate.

…Probably? Thanks, Jeff Albertson, for pointing out my mistake!

What a vile, click-baity headline. The Packingham verdict was absolutely the correct, just one, and as a company that is directly impacted by First Amendment protections you should be ashamed about sinking into the Fox News mire.

Someone sent the Pinkertons after them.

I think when people talk about how "this episode feels more like Twin Peaks," it's because they don't realize that Lynch was being dead serious when he said the whole season is just one big movie. If each of the episodes were reduced to 5 minutes and put together, the tonal shifts would be at pretty much the same pace…

The fact that nobody gets that this is sarcasm says a lot about the usual state of comments on the AV Club.