Episode 5: Safe of Firefly was a very interesting episode. The most fascinating part of this episode for me was that some renegade village people take the doctor and his sister because their village needs medical attention very badly. After the doctor helps some of the village people and makes various snarky comments; the village people decide his sister is a witch and must be burned as a form of cleansing. The crew of the Firefly left the doctor and his sister on the planet, but end up coming back to rescue them because they are deemed part of the crew by the captain at the very end. The fact that the crew of the Firefly accepted two fugitives as part of their “family” was a very significant point to me. People often view family as just being related by blood, although in reality family is what a person makes it. When the captain finally saw the doctor and his sister as family, it was an important moment for most of the characters because it was the acceptance of complete strangers into a tight nit group that did not have to accept them. The scene at the end of the episode where the entire crew is eating together makes this message even clearer as the crew sits together talking, eating and laughing. Just before the scene ends, one of the female characters grabs a piece of bread off of one of the guy’s plate. Instead of the guy being angry or snatching it back, he looks at her in disbelief and immediately starts reaching across the table for a new piece. This was an important sign that the crew is much like a family rather than a random assembly of people.
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