So over the summer, I saw the screener of the Heroes pilot and didn't think much of it. The original script for the pilot had been a compact version of what got turned into the first and second episodes, but as we all now know, the second episode had references to New York City being hit with a nuclear bomb, and NBC chickened out and chopped it up into two episodes, hearing ('m told) a backlash for coming out swinging with a terrorist subplot right in the premiere. Lame, right?

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