Leaked versus official promo pilot

1. Opening dream sequence has John waiting in a library and Sarah yells at him to leave - rest was the same. Monologue was sped up some and felt a little hurried and disjointed. They moved the "losing a child is like an apocalypse" to the very end of the episode.
   
   
2. Fiance was recast and renamed Charley Dixon. He's now played by Dean Winters - best known from the first season of LAW AND ORDER SVU, RESCUE ME, and OZ. All of the fiance scenes were reshot.
   
   
3. Sarah/Charley scene right after dream sequence - they were a bit more cozy than in the pilot. Dixon's character had more lines - they're obviously working on building things out so that John and he had in some ways a better relationship than necessarily Sarah and Charley did. Sarah gave him a goodbye kiss and told him that she loved him - something she didn't do in the pre-air version. Actually spoilers for ep 2 GNOTHI SEAUTON has John running off to try to find Charley.
   
   
4. Charley was more angry with Ellison in their meeting and thought of John like a son.
   
   
5. John's no longer as weepy when he asks Sarah to finish things for him, he's stronger - personally I preferred the original version, I have no problem with a 15 year old kid finally getting a taste of a normal life only to have it ripped away and being all emo about losing it. Knowing that one day you'll be the savior of humanity when you're battling pimples is a heavy weight for any teenager to follow around with.

6. School shooting scene - exactly the same - other than they cut Ellison's reaction when he saw the carnage left behind.
   
   
7. They inserted the previously deleted scene with Sarah and Cameron where Cameron tends to Sarah's wounded shoulder. Before that they drop John off at a convenience store to get stuff for her bloody wound. Sarah yells at him like an army general even when she's bleeding everywhere - I love Sarah.
   
   
8. They included a new scene at a gas station where John is talking to Cameron as she's filling the truck with gas. He offers her a chip and then is like "duh - I should've known there was something wrong when the hot girl starts talking to the new guy." Cameron apologized for lying to him. John asked "What model are you? You're different than the others?" She takes a chip and eats it and says "Yes I am."
   
   
9. Final change is the last scene, for some reason they removed them all sitting in the house cleaning their guns and replaced it with the trio standing outside next to a swingset and then they walked inside. Some haven't much liked this change - I don't mind it because the apocalypse line was added. There's wind and dust blowing in front of Sarah before she enters the house - it harkens back to her initial dream scene in T2 with the kids at the playground. I thought it was a nice homage to the original film and showed that this is no longer a dream - but the nightmare is back and it's now real.
   
   
10. Finally they inserted new music throughout it so it's got an overall different feel to it.