...and it was really, really bad.
I do believe I've missed my true calling. I shoulda been a script doctor.
I'd have had Amy Cairnes been someone Jack had actually connected with to "Sweet Child of Mine" - i.e., Pilot just liked to tell Jack's stories because he didn't have any of his own. And I'd have had Jack going to Seattle looking for his pilot father. Not actually finding him, understand, because that would have been way too Hollywood of a pat ending. And in the end, I definitely would *not* have had Pilot going back to the girl for whom he couldn't get it up. I'd have had him saying that, but then heading instead for... Detroit? Yeah. Why not? Or Denver. One of those D words.
Or maybe that's just me.