Safe... Whoho!
POSTED BY: Peak
UPDATED: Saturday, November 9, 2002 23:22
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am I the only person who didn't like Safe?
~*Saint of Cheese*~
Actually, no. I didn't hate it or really dislike it, and it deafinatly had it's moments ("What does that make us?" "BIG DAMN HEROS sir!" hehe), and I liked the Simon and River flashbacks, but I think this is my least favorite episode so far (I can't list The Train Job anywhere because I haven't seen it). I don't really know why, but I think it might have been because it seemed to be trying to be a more serious episode at some points, but without the nice feel that Out of Gas had. And sometimes it seemed like it was trying to lighten up the episode a little. I thought it seemed a bit schizophrenic.
So there's my two cents. I didn't HATE the episode, but it's not in my favorites either.
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Originally posted by SaintofCheese:
am I the only person who didn't like Safe?
I thought it was the weakest episode of the season. When the poster above said that the TV Guide blurb made it sound like a "tired old plot"--well it is a tired old plot. It doesn't help that Simon and River annoy me no end, and here we had them as the main focus. There are still great lines and character moments, especially Jayne and Zoe, but nothing added up to much in the present action. It was insight into the Tams' past, and Book's, that gave the events any interest.
But then I always find Drew Greenberg's scripts a bit lacking.
Cardie
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I'm a big fan, but Safe was a weak episode. It was good in that it gave us some background on Simon and River, but nothing for the new viewer to get them interested in the show.
Even the gunfight was confusing and unsatisfying to the action fan (me).
My wife is also a fan and she agreed with me.
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Whoa! You saw it already. That's cool.
Jup, that time machine I invented is a damn good thing..
The same one I used to peek at the original pilot with... It's certainly interesting to see the eps before they are shown on US TV... (Don't talk about TV here... We're only on Buffy season 3 here
)And about the ep: I liked it.. Not the best so far, but not the worst either... It did show some of the "civilised" planets, to keep the ones that put science before fiction at bay. And "Previously on..." Gotta love that... :)... Continuity rocks... :p... Think next ep is going to be really, really interesting...
//Peak
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Originally posted by Cardie:
But then I always find Drew Greenberg's scripts a bit lacking.
I see Drew Greenberg as a mixed bag. On BtVS, "Older and Far Away" was disappointing, although it had its good moments, but "Entropy" was terrible. However, I found "Smashed" and "Him" to be amazing eps. I thought "Safe" was good, although a few notches below top quality.
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For my 2 cents:
- I think that Jayne was the best part of that episode. His horrifyingly calous reaction to Brook's wound, and his opertunistic raid of Simon's room where hi-larious. He's definately the Cordeliaesque / Anya character of the show, only less with the nice and caring.
- The episode was really good in the fact that it gave us insight into the Tams, all four of them. Up until this point, I think that both Simon and River had been lack luster characters simply because nothing had be done with them.
- But, that said, it is no where near the quality of "Out of Gas."
So was "Safe" shit, or the shit? Neither. It's not supposed to be the Emmy-winning episode. But it does serve it's purpose. Storywise, if bridges the gap between "Shindig" and "Ariel." Most importantly, it sets up for "Ariel," which looks like it's going to kick serious bootay. And let's not forget that if every episode was "Out of Gas," we wouldn't appreciate it for for what it was. Besides, "Safe" was a heck of a lot better than 99% of the other crap that passes for TV these days.
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i liked this episode and even though river is weird and creeps me out the girl is a good actor. i thought it was much better than last weeks.
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