Instead the network executives received it well, only being concerned about "the complex inherent racial dynamics in the story where a Korean man was attacking a black man".[13] From Dae Kim's perspective, Jin crashed on the island only to find himself in a "worst-case scenario" – he is "among a bunch of strangers, he doesn't speak any English, and he's suspicious of people already."[14] Kim thought it was important to convey Sun and Jin's first falling in love before showing their alienation from the other.[12]