Courtesy of James Hibberd’s The Live Feed. Watch Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet from Lost) gazing up at the sky along with the rest of humanity…

And then there’s this clip, which I find to be much more promising/menacing…

The first clip seemed kinda… bland. Maybe it’s just ‘cuz I’m still a fan of old-school V (the original 1983 miniseries anyway). But the second one has sold me on this re-imagining’s potential. That is a drop of distilled essence of what made the first miniseries so powerful and unbelievably scary: creeping fascism on a global scale.

ABC has already committed V to series based on its pilot. It should start running later on in the 2009-2010 season.