Suggesting that Quentin was suffering from PTSS from an abusive marriage, and possibly abusive family members earlier in his life, does cast Quentin in a different, more sympathetic light.
It is a shame that Chris disapears from the story the way he does. He was much missed.

For what it's worth, the kindle edition is listed with a release date Aug 13, 2013.
I am looking forward to reading the book.

I've been resisting getting the movie since I'm hoping that there will be an extended director's cut released.
Anybody heard anything about that? I remember when the movie came out there was talk of a possible future 3 hour version of the movie coming out on dvd/blu ray, but so far as I know, the current release just has a few deleted scenes.
I am getting the blu rays of Night and House of Dark Shadows. Sadly it appears we're not getting the extended restored version of House either.

Taking the queston seriously, I think a Joe/Quentin hybrid would make a lot of sense as a love intrest for Carolyn in a few years.

I loved the Magtoria reveal. I knew that Vicki would be the love intrest and had no expectation of Maggie being in the movie at all, and since Vicki already would have elements of Maggie with her being the look alike of Josette, that really really worked for me.
I do wish that Laura had been more of a fire creature, but that's a small thing.
Liz did tell Barnabas that the family had been cursed by supernatural creatures and tragedy for many generations, so I took that as Angelique's ongoing vendetta with the Collins family. Angelique did kill Roger's wife and cursed Liz's daughter, who knows what else she did to them. Probably introduced Paul Stoddard to the Leviathans.  Also, Angelique obviously took delight in the declining fortunes of the Collins family, striking at them any harder would've ended her fun. I saw her as a vicious cat toying with a mouse in that regard.
I thought there were interesting things done with Roger, that he was banging some anonymous girl in the coat check room and had David standing guard, and that Roger took the money and ran was interesting. The movie had a limited amount of time to devote to each character. Who knows, Roger may return for the sequel with his new wife Cassandra.
Julia's sex act does play out better if I look at it as her manipulating him. I prefer Julia here as being crafty and devious instead of pathetic.
LOVED Carolyn's Daddy moment and Liz's reaction. Little touches like that added so much to the movie and show that tptb there know and love the classic source material.

I saw it with my family in a packed house Imax showing in Tulsa OK. We all loved it, and the audinace seemed to really enjoy it.
There were a few missteps and things that could've been doen better, but overall it was great fun. It kept some of the mood and spirit of the original but went in different directions with it, which I think worked. A remake should find new ground to explore out of the old material or there's no use in remaking it.
I thought the Maggie/Vicki merger was exciting, I gasped and nearly fell out of my chair over that one lol
I did think that the orphan background should've been kept, and it was odd that they didn't use the oprhan background or "Pop", but Vicki being dumped in an asylum did effect orphan her and made use of Maggie's history with Windcliff.
I thought the characters were used and developed pretty well. I think an extended directors cut could improve things.
Julia needed the most development, HBC was great but Julia just didn't get enough development. I never really felt her relationship with Barnabas and the "on her knees" moment was abrupt and distasteful as it happened too suddenly and made no impact on the plot. Neither Barnabas or Julia even reacted to the scene.
I thought Roger being such a scoundral worked to show him in comparison to Barnabas in their roles in the family. Roger failed as a father and brother, businessman, and Barnabas stepped up into those roles. We saw how much Liz and the kids needed him because Roger had failed them.
I thougth Angelique's china doll breaking apart at the end was really interesting, a unique way of showing her inhumanity. I did think that a little more vulnderability from Angelique would've improved things.
Carolyn's secret was a huge WTF that would've benefited from some foreshadowing, but it still brought some great moments to the movie, providing an explanation for CArolyn's angst and I LOVED how quickly Liz adjusted and accepted it. Werewolf or not Liz loved her child and I cheered when Liz carried Carolyn to safety with no hesitation. I think that some restored footage in a director's cut would really improve that.
Johnny Depp carried the movie beautifully, exploring Barnabas as a man out of time, an outsider trying to find his way, and really the rest of the cast all worked very well I thought.
The plot kept shocking me, with Barnabas being "out" to the family, then publicly exposed, Julia's death and resurrection, Laura, Carolyn, Collinwood burning, the movie's last half hour or so left me on my toes with no idea what was going to happen next.
I liked how the family all came togather with Barnabas against Angelique, and I enjoyed the irony that Angelique had created all her own enemies out of spite, and thus brought about her own destructon, very mytholoigal in scope.
Roll out the sequel!

Colin Baker has done some amazing audio workwith BF, so I trust that this story will be good, but I do think that an original cast member shouldn't been the second voice to anchor the story. Perhaps this will help bring in more Who listeners to checking out DS.
They announced today that April's release, Dress Me in Black, will star Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Amber Benson (Tara) as young Judith, with Terry Crawford as Edith. I am SO stoked for this. Love both actresses, and Judith and Edith are both really interesting characters that have lots of potential to be explored.
This also would seem to open up the possibilites of Amber playing young Liz or Naomi in future audios as well.

I am looking forward to the new DS novel. Unfortunately, I got an email from Amazon (as I've already pre ordered the book) that the release date has been pushed back to March 2013, and when I tried to check out the product's page for more info, discovered it's actually no longer even available to pre order despite still being active in my orders, the page now only allows customers to register for an update when the book becomes available.
So who knows what's really going on with this. I'm not sure if that new release date is offical or what.