Yeah if the fluid looks good, you should be fine. It's like mid nineties cars and farther back with the original fluid that poses a possible risk. There's a technique to put one foot under the pedal when manually bleeding just so you don't push it in that area.
Some car's brake fluid just gets bad fast. My neighbor's dodge neon blew a wheel cylinder, and when I replaced it and bled the brakes, the fluid looked like dirty motor oil, it was horrible. I don't know how it can get so bad so fast. It's like a late 90's.
