I am a superhero comics reader (or used to be), and I have never been impressed with this show. What you never do in the comics is to have several characters who can absorb everybody else's powers, because it's too easy and too unrealistic. Yet this show is more about power-swapping than about anything else. Suddenly, in this season, Suresh is acting totally out of character, Sylar is becoming a good guy for no reason, Peter's powers are impossible to keep track of, time-hopping is getting out of hand and making the story almost impossible to follow, and now we have Arthur Petrelli having powers that can absorb Peter's but not vice versa. At the same time, stupid things are happening. WHY did Meredith go to see Doyle without a plan when she KNEW what powers he had? Doesn't make sense. The story is losing both coherence, logic and entertainment value, and will soon be about as ridiculously nonsensical as Lost. A superhero comic wouldn't be caught dead having this kind of story, and if it did, no comics fan would buy it.
Review of Chapter Six 'Dying of the Light'
