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And the heroes cogitating continues... Forgive me for catching up with a whole season of meta.

First, let me say that Mohinder is hot. Really, quite spectacularly hot. That accent--guh.

However, he has now been a patsy three times! First to Eden (not surprising at all when she turned out to be a mole), then to Sylar, and now to the company. At this point, he's not coming off as naive. He's coming off as stupid. Really stupid. That's reason one.

Reason two--his only purpose on the show is exposition. He doesn't really have a heroic journey going on. Most of what he does is give the science-babble of how all this works. And since the technobabble is, as is usually true for shows like this, the weakest part of the story. I always roll my eyes when he's on-screen.

I don't know. Maybe I'd like him more if he wasn't spewing completely untrue urban legends about genetics and neurobiology. (Most humans only use 10% of their brain! Um, no. fMRI's have disproved that. It's difficult to track down the right gene because of all the millions of base pairs! Honey, most of that's junk. It's still difficult to track down the right base pairs, but you should know that most of the DNA in a cell is not genes. And if that's true, why do you immediately know that Peter's DNA is changing? And why can you give Molly your antibodies and have it work? Did you even blood-type her before the transfusion? Gah!)

So, yes. Mohinder is a useless character that goes around talking shit about genetics and evolution (hell, the X-Men movie did a better job at the "science") and alternately endangering himself and other people. And I don't like him.

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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.

I basically pretend that it's magic, not science, and go "lalalalala" whenever they pretend to talk about science. But it still annoys me.

Add to that the fact that I don't particularly *care* about his issues (though I do want to know what the hell is up with the kid in his dreams in India because WTF was that about?) and his scenes get the FF quite often.

Hooray! NO ONE LIKES MOHINDER!

Every objection you've raised I've already lamented, so it's nice that someone else suffers along with me. The last episodes with the antibodies (TO WHAT? OH MY SCIENCE!) and trying to make him seem important are just useless. It was better when there was the lie that he could identify these people and cure them.

As for his ability to get duped...yeah, that's why

linaerys calls him "Mohimbo." Okay, Eden could have used her wacky pipes on him and she was a cute girl who believed his crazy theories and satisfied his very Oedipal antagonism towards his dad (she didn't have to be boning Papa Suresh; just knowing and liking him was bad enough). Eden? I buy.

But SYLAR? Even the swiss-cheesed brain that Mrs. Bennet has been left with sussed out his creep inside of a few hours. Mohinder travelled with "Zane Taylor" for three days. They shared car trip intimacy! Adjoining hotel rooms! THEY MADE EACH OTHER CAFFIENATED BEVERAGES!! You can't know how someone talks their tea and not know whether or not they like to eat BRAINS!!!!