So, when I went to bed last night the Rays were up 7-0 late in the game. I figured victory was assured. Well, I was wrong. Somehow the Red Sox managed to pull off the second biggest come-from-behind victory in the history of the playoffs. I am a little troubled that the Rays didn’t finish off the Sox as soon as they could, but it will be sweet if they can do it tomorrow night at Tropicana Field in front of the home crowd. They are still a game up on the Red Sox, so I won’t despair right now. But if the Rays can’t win tomorrow night, and the series goes to a seventh game, I Sunday will be very stressful.
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NBC is broadcasting a new show tonight called Crusoe, based, obviously, on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which I read over the summer in South Carolina.
It’s very exciting to see a great eighteenth century novel adapted for the screen, but I’m a little worried that this is going to be a very loose adaptation, indeed. For example, it seems to be glossing over the whole slavery motif in the novel. Crusoe gets stranded on the Island of Despair when he was a mission to go get slaves in Africa. Also, as this series begins, Friday is already Crusoe’s friend. No mention is made of how Crusoe intended for Friday to be his servant. Also, they haven’t shown any of the cannibalism.
I see that this series is set to run 13 episodes. Let’s see if it gets more or less accurate.
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