Posted: July 2, 2015 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alec Sulkin, Amanda Seyfried, Giovanni Ribisi, John Slattery, Liam Neeson, Marc Wahlberg, Seth McFarlane, Ted 2, Wellesley Wild | 1 Comment »
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Warning: SPOILERS
In 2012, Family Guy’s Seth McFarlane gave us Ted, a comedy about a teddy bear that came to life. It was actually a pretty good metaphor for the Peter Pan syndrome that the central character, John, suffered from.
It’s 2015, and now we have Ted 2. The bear’s still alive, but it’s a whole new metaphor: Ted wants to get married and adopt a child, but is he human enough to do so? Does he deserve equal rights?
Okay, you can see where this is going. And again, it’s not a half bad metaphor. One can almost see Pat Robertson and Franklin Graham posting on their blogs or talking about it on their shows as proof of the slippery slope that will result from legalizing same sex marriage: if a man can marry a man or a woman a woman, what’s to stop someone from marrying a…stuffed animal.
