From the internetless depths

It sucks not to have internet, but at least one misses out on the rabid fanbases that thankfully don't exist offline.
After a while, they get boring anyway, and even the stupidity starts getting repetitive. After watching HEROES 2x07, I could at once predict which complaints the fans would have. I took a peek, and I was right.

Something is bothering me, though, namely the recurring complaint that Mohinder is coming across as more stupid than he is, due to the writers constantly putting him in situation where the audience knows more than he does. This is then described as "bad writing".

Well, disregarding the sad fact that about anything is considered "bad writing" in HEROES fandom, and letting aside that I honestly don't know what it is that the audience is currently supposed to know that Mohinder doesn't know and that makes his decision obviously stupid...

Hitchcock. Suspence. Dial M For Murder.

I enjoyed that movie a lot. It is built on the principle that the audience knows more than any of the characters. The questions that are supposed to keep you on edge is: How is the bad guy going to betray himself, what mistake will he do, or what will the heroes do to figure out the truth?
I realize that the HEROES fandom would consider the female main character "stupid" for not knowing right from the start that her husband is conspiring to kill her.
They would consider the movie "badly written".

So who is at fault? Are the HEROES writers overestimating their audience because they trust them to remember that the characters don't have all information available to them? Are the HEROES fans underestimating each other? Or do they just love being nitpicky, and try to find flaws where there aren't any?

Would movies like Dial M For Murder fail, be considered boring and frustrating and stupid? Probably... no car chases, no action scenes... Hmm. I'm a little bit sad now.