Heroes original 72 minute pilot airing on SciFi?

i just read that scifi is airing the original heroes pilot episode (72 minutes,
only shown at comicon once) friday dec 15. scifi\'s schedule says just
\'pilot\',
but doesn\'t specify. can someone confirm if it\'s realy going to be the
extended
pilot ep and will someone cap it?

oh.. i wanna see that :d

the original "in his own image" preair that was up here and other places was
only 54:46, so if it's longer it sounds like it's the original comicon one..
that'd be cool

edit: having just looked at the schedule on scifi.com, i don't think it's the
comicon one because it comes on at 7/6c, but doctor who comes on at 8/7c, it
wouldn't have nearly enough time

where did you read that, i just did a few searches and couldn't find a single
article regarding that.
you would think that if scifi channel was airing it, they'd atleast have
something on their website about it.
jas

they couldn't air the pre-air as is, as there are a couple inconsistencies with
the storyline, such as in the really gory sight of isaac mendez having cut off
his own hand to get to his drugs.

the original pilot was shown a few other places than just at comicon... such as
at some other comic or gaming conventions, etc....
i was lucky enough to have seen the full-length pilot in such a case.

the scene of isaac after he cut his own hand off doesn't seem to be the problem,
as that actually made it into the edited version that went to the network for
approval... you can download that version with the hand-chopping still in..

if you haven't yet downloaded the pilot.. get it... there are other differences
that are worth watching.. (the entire ending was re-shot)

- warning -
some slight "spoilers" to follow, about the full-length pilot:

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most of what was cut out involved the introduction of officer parkman.. the
character we now know as sylar was originally intended to be a terrorist -slash-
super-villain... parkman accidentally overhears some thoughts and is able to
break up a terrorist cell, related to or led by the now sylar character...

it seems that this part of the pilot was cut out because somebody decided that
people still aren't ready to watch shows with a terrorism theme.. even though we
have other shows that delve more intensely into the subject that this did...
*shrugs*

yeah, i was thinking about the pre-air, didn't even know that they had a version
even before that. would be pretty cool to see with another 20 mins of previously
unseen material, even if it doesn't match up with the current storyline.

you know it'll be in the dvd set.
at least as deleted scenes.