Heroes' Powers Slipping Away?

Was anyone else excited when Sylar told Claire that he couldn't even kill her if he wanted to? That scene changed a lot in this series. I was excited to see what that would mean for her character. I hypothesized that her power was different than Adam's when Adam died to Mr Petrelli. This line of thinking led me to the conclusion that everyone's power was as individual as they were. Like the
Flint & Meredith Gordon ciblings. One obviously burns oxygen and the other burns hydrogen. They also seem to control their powers differently. Woudn't it be satisfying if there really were an infinite level of nuiance in these abilities?

Obviously the new writers don't think so. Peter and Sylar may as well be identical twins for how unique their powers are becoming. It won't suprise me if they also make them capable of exactly reproducing what Mr Petrelli has done with his "power grab" ability. I was also hoping that things would become more interesting as the season progresses. It's not. This homonogination of powers is being followed up by one of the more confusing and silly things that I ignored from first season. The eclipse. Apparently they all "recieved" their powers during the eclipse. But they uesd them a LOT before then. Claire would have been dead if she didn't heal as a baby. Hiro saw the eclipse from the roof of his father's office building after he teleported himself there from the US. Nearly everyone saw the eclipse. I thought their weird pronouncement that their powers originated there was just symbolic. Turns out they meant it, or at least the writers for this season want it to have been literal.

Not only that, but we are back to "Save the cheerleader," with the twist that she's the one with the power to destroy the world this time. And why? Because somehow Hiro's dad "hid something" inside her? This is not interesting anymore. It's silly. Now they are all going to lose their powers because a vengeful eclipse is going to take them away? We want to believe that "ordinary" people can get powers like these. To tell us that they came from an eclipse and can be taken away by an eclipse is mythological. This is the first instance where the authors give this level of control to unexplained cosmic forces. It smells like x-files.

My only hope is that they somehow can make this make more sense. I doubt they can, but I'll wait for it.