As awful as season 3 is I do think, at least, that Mohinder going a little off the deep end because of his fascination with abilities is a warranted path for his character. They’re just not doing it right. Mohinder isn’t a person who would rush a fast and loose formula and test it on himself with no backup plan. He has always had morals, procedure, and caution. It needs to be a slow slip, starting with testing Maya’s ability, like Sylar did. Wanting to understand how it works and what it can do, like Sylar does. Do you see where I’m going with this? There reasonably could have been a moment where Sylar and Mohinder are the people that understand each other the most, the ticking of obsession in both of their minds in sync, and they would know that. Even as they are in the show, that’s true. Nobody understands Sylar more than Mohinder does, and nobody understands Mohinder more than Sylar does. It’s the destiny of their characters.