His face looked mobile to me.
His facial expressions are some of the best things about his performance - particularly when his character is taunting his brother. Those scenes are some of the best in the show.
It keeps getting better each week.
I agree. And it's good to see that the show continues to do well despite greater competition from shows like
Survivor,
Bones and
FlashForward.
I wonder if Vicki and Caroline are nods as well??
I don't know. I was in a bookstore the other day and picked up a couple of the books that the series is based on, but I only read the back synopses because I didn't want to know too much in case the show decides to follow the books fairly closely. Though even if the Vicki character does appear in the books, who's to say that L. J. Smith didn't intend it as a nod to DS - and as sort of an anti-homage to DS because TVD's Vicki is a spitfire.