By Leslie Gray Streeter Because I know that we live by the TiVo, I wanted to make sure that everyone got 12 hours or so to watch ABC’s reboot of “V,” which premiered last night before revealing any juicy plot points. I normally don’t wait this long to give details,  but given the buzz on this show, which won the night in ratings, I decided to just this once. I don’t consider them spoilers, because the show’s already aired, and if you’re gonna recap something, you can’t possibly know when everybody at home is going to read that recap. So if you don’t want to know what happened, DON’T READ ANY FURTHER. You’ve been warned. Here’s what happened: We meet several ordinary-looking people with ordinary lives – FBI agent Erica (”Lost”’s Elizabeth Mitchell) is a single mom with a loving but sort of annoying teen son Tyler and a cute FBI partner named Dale (Alan Tudyk). Father Jack (Joel Gretsch of “The 4400″) is a hard-working priest struggling to retain his congregation. Ryan is Morris Chestnut, which is good enough for me. He’s also about to propose to his girlfriend Valerie (Lourdes Benedicto). Meanwhile, national TV newsman Chad Decker (Scott Wolf) is a vapid, blow-dryed haircut in a nice suit, lucky enough to look like Scott Wolf. The world changes for all of these people when it starts to, literally, move under their feet. But it’s no ordinary earthquake – there are large, scary-looking spacecraft blocking out the sun, whose panels shift to form the face of a very pretty woman named Anna (Morena Baccarin). She explains that she represents some peaceful creatures who come in peace and are just looking around the universe for resources and are totally not here to peel off their perfect skin to reveal lizard scales, enslave the planet and eat all the gerbils and rabbits for dinner. No, not at all. In fact, the Visitors, or the V, want to spread their peace,

love, joy, health and whatnot, and have a special program by which humans can hang out with them and spread their propaganda…er, positive message of positive positivity to the rest of the world. Erica’s son Tyler (Logan Huffman) is all about it, because the V are very hot. Erica is not feeling it. Meanwhile, Father Jack’s congregation is booming, Chad is eschewing any ties to journalistic ethics by letting Anna convince him not to ask any questions that might paint the V in a negative light during their big interview, and some guy from Ryan’s past is hounding him to join him in some mystery cause that Ryan’s not interested in. Things get dicier – Tyler gets busted for tagging the letter “V” on walls to spread the word (although apparently not to property owners who have to clean it up), and Erica infiltrates a meeting of people who are as suspicious of the V as she is and want to fight back. Also at the meeting – Ryan, who, as it turns out, isn’t just a rebel. He’s a big green lizard! Acck! But he’s one of the good ones. Not among the good ones – Dale, who joins in with a bunch of evil V dudes to start attacking everyone at the meeting, and has his human skin ripped right off in a fight with Erica. He’s apparently dead, which is too bad, because I love Alan Tudyk and haven’t quite gotten over his character Wash being dead in “Serenity.” Anyway, the episode, which, as some of y’all have pointed out, was sort of rushed, ends with Erica and Father Jack forging a friendship, and with dumb Tyler getting in deeper with the “V.” Ryan’s still hot and in love, and Chad’s still a moron. I elect him to get eaten second, after Tyler. Again, can’t wait till next week!

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“V” – Here’s your promised premiere recap!