Well, as I saw the new chapter up I remembered where it had left off and immediately got an anxious knot in my stomach, so I'd say the suspense is holding up.
*does the happy author dance*

I actually don't recommend jumping to the first episode with Sylar, because it's really a flashback episode, and it's probably one of the better examples of having to see point C for points A and B to have their proper impact. (er, see influence...lol)

For me, the "grab me" point of the series was the second or third episode, I think. That was the one with all the heavy foreshadowing for the rest of the season, introducing Matt (My favorite example of blessed with suck-ness in the whole series, really. His power never leads him anywhere good.), Sylar (at least in name and menacing-shadowy-bogeyman form), and featuring Hiro's first big jump (I'm a fan of starting with a big scary time jump? Get out...)