The Cylons were slaves. My first reaction is so what? It's like saying our cars are slaves, or talking dollars are slaves, and one day they rise up against us. They're just machines. The "skinjobs" weren't created yet 40 years earlier, after all, all the Cylons looked like the "1978" machines saying "by your command" almost mindlessly. Okay, okay, the machines had been given some or a lot of AI, and that makes them thinking creatures--sentient beings. But I still couldn't imagine emphathizing all too much with their plight, since as machines they feel nothing, it's not like the uprising in the Planet of the Apes movies. Whipping an ape that feels pain is different than programming a Cylon to dig a ditch. The only thing that humans stopped Cylons from doing was achieving their own destiny and serving beings pure enough to be worthy of it--namely, themselves--at least until they created new "humans" to serve just as mindlessly, which is just plain weird. Or maybe like you said in some other post the humans forced the Cylons to do their fighting for them, and it sickened them about humans, which again, oddly, made them want to slaughter all the humans. Help me out here, my head's spinning.