[Captain Taurus]

obsolete toaster, on 05 April 2012 - 03:17 PM, said:

I still think they probably communicate wirelessly (i.e. direct thought transference) with each other. And the humanoid Cylons probably didn't WANT their new breed of Cylons to have the ability to talk back to them or question orders (a failsafe no doubt programmed into them from the horror stories of the Final Five "Earth 1.0" Cylons).

Stronger and silent is mysterious. Some of the scariest villains/henchmen have been silent. To use some Bond analogies, Odd Job in "Goldfinger" never talked. And when "Jaws" started talking (in "Moonraker") he came off as silly...

And (of course) you know that if NuCylons talked, there'd always be something people would find wrong with their voices as well (too much like TOS, or not threatening enough, etc, etc).

Would have been neat to do a test, just to see what kind of reaction it would spark.

[I Voted Baltar]

Captain Taurus, on 06 April 2012 - 09:18 PM, said:

Would have been neat to do a test, just to see what kind of reaction it would spark.

As a test or a one off, I can visualise a scene with them trying out a Centurian voice. I can't rememberwhat episde it is, but there's a scene with Baltar chatting away to a Centurian in a pretty one sided conversation. The Centurian reacts with head movements/expressions. But they could have given the audience a surprising line to end the scene.

[obsolete toaster]

I Voted Baltar, on 07 April 2012 - 03:45 AM, said:

As a test or a one off, I can visualise a scene with them trying out a Centurian voice. I can't rememberwhat episde it is, but there's a scene with Baltar chatting away to a Centurian in a pretty one sided conversation. The Centurian reacts with head movements/expressions. But they could have given the audience a surprising line to end the scene.

It would've been even more of a shocker if the centurion voice was very pleasing and resonant; ala "Hal 9000" or something...