Shockie, I think you just weren't paying close enough attention... You're several years older than I am but I consider us to have similar personalities, from what I know about you.. and I'm completely in love with the show.
There is a central storyline, it just one of those cases where it takes several episodes for it to become apparent. They're trying to save the world, and all the characters are interrelated in some form or another. Every episode we pretty much find out about a new link between characters. It's just a matter of building to that event.
As for the characters, how can you say they're boring? They all have friggin superpowers for god's sake! It's friggin sick! And like half of the actors are going to be stars within 5 years. Hiro is an amazingly entertaining character, the Nikki character is great too, Peter is amazing, my favorite hero, Claire is close behind, I absolutely love Bennett. the Characters are great, especially now that we have a little bit of a back story to all of them.
As for the comment about it being an X-Men ripoff... yeah I thought that too after a while. It truly does seem like this is what the backstory to X-men would be exactly like. But Stan Lee did a friggin cameo in the show, so I think he's Ok with it or linked to the project somehow. It's possible that they're telling the back story to the X-Men in some way, shape, or form... or maybe you're just supposed to use your imagination.
But yeah, you're really missing something... first 10 episodes I found great, but they were slower because they were building characters, but after that it just got fucking ridiculous, it's amazing.
Honestly, best show on TV right now..