To me it's the simple fact that he small and so unassuming looking.
He is all brain and no bronze.
Which I feel makes him creepier then some 6 foot 5 muscle bound guy.

It's his bulging, blue eyes. No matter what, it makes him look either crazy or sinister or both.

I have to agree that his eyes definitely add to his "creepiness". Love, love, LOVE him! His voice, pacing, subtle humor...all add to the character of Ben

He seems almost insect like to me. Almost alien at times.

It's the way he's a master at manipulation, it's the certain looks he'll give someone(for example, in season 2, the glaze he shot to Sayid after Sayid kicked his *** in the hatch's gun closet).

He's just a creepy little man! :D

He is evil incarnate and the show would be a disaster without him!

It's the way he's a master at manipulation, it's the certain looks he'll give someone(for example, in season 2, the glaze he shot to Sayid after Sayid kicked his *** in the hatch's gun closet).

He's just a creepy little man! :D

I agree. That look was priceless. It even scared the heck out of me.

He's not creepy, he's just written that way. I think it's good make-up and good acting and a script that says he's nutz! :biggrin:

He IS creepy, there is no doubt. His eyes and acting transform him into a menacing ball of evil (which, in LOST terms, means he'll probably end up being the good guy at the end.)

It doesn't help (people like me) that he played that serial killer on the old "The Practice" not so long ago and did it so very, very well.

Skillful actor!

He's not creepy, he's just written that way. I think it's good make-up and good acting and a script that says he's nutz! :biggrin:

Well, Lost in general begins with good acting and good scripts. ;)

And after seeing the obsession Ben has with Juliet in "The Other Woman", and the lengths he will go to to keep her, that just added twenty times more creepy to the already existing creepy. :D

Well, Lost in general begins with good acting and good scripts. ;) :D
That's for sure! Michael Emerson is about the most brilliant actor I have ever seen. I can't believe I've never heard of him before.

As I understand it, TPTB created the Ben-as-Master-Scary-Guy character after seeing what Emerson was able to do with one small scene in the hatch.

BTW, he doesn't really have bug eyes: that's just Emerson's fantastic physical acting.

As I understand it, TPTB created the Ben-as-Master-Scary-Guy character after seeing what Emerson was able to do with one small scene in the hatch.I've wondered about that. If it's true that the whole thing is planned out, at least in some skeletal outlined form, then which character was going to drive Ben's plot points before the Powers bumped him to regular status?

i think that he is creppy to me because he knows EVERYTHING that goes on. and he drives lock crazy, esp. anyone who drives lock insane deserves a title. lock always seems patient, except around ben

I think it's because he acts and seems so harmless, but he's really evil. his eyes definitly add to that psychopathic look I've grown to like.

Toss in his obsession with Juliet, the fact he shot Locke, and a few other things and he's just got this aura where you know bad things will probably happen if he's around but you just don't know what to expect.

It's his eyes, man. His eyes.

Its more his looks (no disrespect) than his acting for me. He was creepy as hell in SAW.

I think the thing that makes him creepy is how everyone underestimates him. Sawyer getting beat in the cage, Locke letting him go.....it seems like every time Ben is about to blindsided or beaten at his game, he knows it is coming and is ready for it. He is like the puppet master of everyone, they just don't know they have strings attached. Every time you think they have them, he flashes that glint in his eye, that smile and you just know he is right where he wants to be.

That's for sure! Michael Emerson is about the most brilliant actor I have ever seen. I can't believe I've never heard of him before.

As I understand it, TPTB created the Ben-as-Master-Scary-Guy character after seeing what Emerson was able to do with one small scene in the hatch.

BTW, he doesn't really have bug eyes: that's just Emerson's fantastic physical acting.

Actually they have said in a number of interviews that they were going to create the leader of the Others and decided to give the role to Emerson because of his Emmy Award winning performance in the Practice where he played a maybe-maybe not serial killer. They wanted that quality. After 3 episodes Henry was suppose to escape no matter how good Emerson was with the role and then come back in the finale and as a regular in season 3. They figured if Emerson was unhappy in Hawaii or if he "sucked" in the role then someone else would have been the Others leader and no more would be heard from Henry. But Emerson was so good they found they could leave him in the hatch longer and so they kept writing scenes for him. The "got any milk" scene was one of the best in the series. It is the combination of a stare, bags under his eyes and slightly protuberant eyeballs that give the bulging eye effect.

Michael doesn't look creepy at all in real life. He smiles and laughs all the time and is so cute when he talks about his wife. You should see his performance as a gay butler in Straight Jacket. He was hysterical. Most of his roles on stage were comedic but he got his big break about 10 years ago in the leading role of Oscar Wilde. He got into TV because he said most of the juiciest stage roles went to TV actors.

Actually they have said in a number of interviews that they were going to create the leader of the Others and decided to give the role to Emerson because of his Emmy Award winning performance in the Practice where he played a maybe-maybe not serial killer. They wanted that quality. After 3 episodes Henry was suppose to escape no matter how good Emerson was with the role and then come back in the finale and as a regular in season 3. They figured if Emerson was unhappy in Hawaii or if he "sucked" in the role then someone else would have been the Others leader and no more would be heard from Henry. But Emerson was so good they found they could leave him in the hatch longer and so they kept writing scenes for him. The "got any milk" scene was one of the best in the series. It is the combination of a stare, bags under his eyes and slightly protuberant eyeballs that give the bulging eye effect.

Michael doesn't look creepy at all in real life. He smiles and laughs all the time and is so cute when he talks about his wife. You should see his performance as a gay butler in Straight Jacket. He was hysterical. Most of his roles on stage were comedic but he got his big break about 10 years ago in the leading role of Oscar Wilde. He got into TV because he said most of the juiciest stage roles went to TV actors.

Yep, Michael is a sweetheart with an impeccable sense of humor...A brilliant, educated guy...

And it's not his looks that make him creepy, it's the performance, and performance alone, no doubt (besides not looking creepy, he look pretty damn normal to me, not ugly or anything, and certainly much younger than his almost 54 years ;)

*Okay, now prepare for the shrink in me*...The reason why we find Ben disturbing, intimidating, creepy, scary, is very, very simple- he is calm all the time. Calm with a smirk, preferably, and always a plan. He is eXactly the epitome of one RARE type of people we cannot fight in real life, those calm, knowledgeable people who can always throw us into a nervous breakdown simply with their behavior. I have never witnessed a scene where a person starting a fight would win against a calm opponent. Never. So there you go :biggrin:

He seems almost insect like to me. Almost alien at times.

lmaoooooo
Thats funny, and I completely agree. Sometimes he seems almost not human.
Plus those bug-eyed earl eyes. But I also think that 90% of his creepy-ness is because of his great acting. Slow tempo, with short bursts, and that stare/voice/glaring look. He's amazing.

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He, is interviewed in one of the special features on the season 3 dvd and he says: That he knows how prominent his eyes are and he deliberatly stares at people without breaking away.

He is just such a psychopathic, grandiose, sadistic, narcissist, master manipulator with no conscience whatsoever....all done in a calm, sweet, polite and intelligent way :biggrin:

He is just such a psychopathic, grandiose, sadistic, narcissist, master manipulator with no conscience whatsoever....all done in a calm, sweet, polite and intelligent way :biggrin:

The perfect man every mother wants for her daughter...NOT :rotflmao2:

Wait, did I date him in high school? No that was some other guy.

Maybe its the way he wears his pants so high..
CREEPPYYY!!! hahahaha

He's creepy because of Michael Emerson's skills. Ben is unbelievably manipulative, but he is also a heartbroken man. Where's Annie? He misses her. "You're mine!" It's the conflicting sides to the characer that, for me, make him so creepy.