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pure speculation is easy to discuss but hard to debate
It just seems weird to me that humans would create a race of robots that feel pain and suffering and misery (in between robotically intoning, 'by your command') to do slave-type work--menial tasks. If so Caprica must stand for Capricious and the humans got everything coming to them--I mean how sick does a planetary civilization have to be to create a special race of sentient beings as slaves to suffer and do menial labor? But they do feeling nothing, the Cylons can shut off pain receptors, and that's the new generation skin jobs; it's hard to imaging the old 1978 clunkers feeling pain, it'd kind of defeat the purpose of building a robot ("buy the deluxe model for a million creds more, it comes pain receptors!"). Unless the misery they felt was a spiritual or mental suffering (such as being created to fight human wars for them, or being denied their destiny as a species), which would help explain why the Cylons are so spiritual (and hate humans so much).
And seems weird also the 1978 clunkers would go away and create a Cylon master race to enslave them, and this master race looks like a bunch of humans, and these humans, when you take away the sexiness and power, are basically a parody of the human evil they're trying to wipe out by exterminating humanity.