If At First You Don't Succeed

I've watched the first two episodes of The Event (while its competition, Lone Star, has already been canceled).  It's not bad--they keep the action going--but the characters and overall plot aren't much yet.  It's doesn't pop out like, say, the first season of Heroes did. (I won't even bother to compare it to Lost.)

When it comes down to it, (spoilers) it seems to be that venerated sci-fi concept--beings living among us who are different but look the same.  Two recent examples are V and Battlestar Galactica.  The question now is what do these beings--perhaps aliens--want.  They're being played sympathetically, with the villains apparently being the cliched government officials who believe too much in a security state.

The main guy among these officials is played by Zeljko Ivanek.  He just started a task force to round up all these weird beings with seemingly magical powers.  Wait a second--that's the exact same role he played last year on Heroes!  Couldn't they at least cast someone else?