Thanks for these gorgeous captures, MB! Did you see Rhys Meyers in Gormenghast? I do think he's too pretty and pouty for Barnabas, but he'd make an interesting Quentin, especially Quentin as the spoiled prettyboy of early 1897.
My housemate has become addicted to Smallville (which I alternate between calling Schlongville and Schlockville, depending upon how much skin Tom Welling has been showing on any given episode). I told him that Ian Sommerhalder had been discussed as casting for the role of Barnabas, and the poor lad practically had a seizure!
I do think James Marsters would make an interesting Barnabas, with dark hair, of course, and a different look. At least he has the needed theatrical traning to pull it off. I fear there aren't very many people in the current WB stables of whom that can be said...
G.