For those hording toilet paper

The spattering of characters are introduced, but few with exact clarity. Jorge Garcia is one of them with some spotlight. Hefty but clearly a fun character who will serve as much needed comic relief from time to time, Garcia’s Hurley tells a congregate that the fuselage is a ghoulish sight not for the faint of heart. What lies inside is not among the 48 still alive. Hurley is called on by Jack to see after Claire and he clearly is taken aback by such a request. He does attend to her, however. Boone is a young man seemingly out of his element, but nonetheless Jack sees him as someone willing to do whatever is asked of him. Boone is asked to see that the injured individual with the metal in his side doesn’t try to pull it out of his side. Boone has a girlfriend, Shannon (Maggie Grace, all hot legs), he offers a candy bar to. Shannon is persistent that help will arrive any time now. Naïve and rather rude, Shannon dismisses Boone on sight. She’s pouty and short with Boone no matter what he says. She is under the impression (perhaps it is a protection mentally to keep from dwelling on the idea of being stranded on an island with no escape off it) that help WILL come, almost saying it with nearly every sentence given her in the first half of the Pilot. Sayid doesn’t have a lot of time in the first half of the Pilot, Sawyer (Josh Holloway) just grimaces with this look of intensity on his face, and Michael (Harold Perrineau) looks after his son. Jin-Soo (Daniel Dae Kim; Hawaii Five-0) is highly protective of his wife, as if keeping her completely away from everybody else. Why is Jin-Soo so paranoid, so intent on avoiding everyone?

John Locke (Terry O'Quinn; The Stepfather and countless film and television roles, one of the great prolific actors) is still undefined but his presence pops nonetheless because he's just charismatic. He sits in the rain as it pours while the other survivors run for cover. As Kate takes the shoes from a dead man so she can follow Jack into the woods, John catches her eye. He smiles with an orange in his mouth, seemingly trying to make her smile. But she isn't in the mood and he just turns away, altering back into solemnity.

I noticed one of the show’s initial lures is something rumbling in the trees of the woods on the island. The survivors notice its sound, the way its steps send off an intimidating sound. It appears to be quite the menace, something they all will want to avoid. But can they? When we follow Jack, Kate, and Charlie to the first part of the plane, and they find the injured pilot still alive, that menace descends upon them, sounding its presence, striking great fear in them. The pilot gets out of his seat unwisely and is pulled from the plane as Jack, Charlie, and Kate look on helplessly. They later find his bloodied and mutilated body up in a tree. They are not alone and the signal so desired to reach help from the transceiver was a wasted trip.