I don't like him either--and I don't have the whole "but he's hot" thing to fall back upon--but I understand why he's there. We need some non-powered characters to give us a more "normal" viewpoint. Ando's the champ at this, of course, esp. for us geeks, but Mohinder is meant to provide an objective perspective.

I'm also willing to buy some of his idiocy because, before he came to the States, he was a ridiculously sheltered academe. Confront him with term papers and cheating on tests and departmental politics and he's probably an expert. Hit him with life-and-death struggles and espionage and all that and you can understand why he's clueless, though I think they have overdone that a bit.