As this entire thread has shown, a few things were implied, but really all we can do is speculate. And as far as the characters involved are concerned, such speculation is pointless.
Take Sturgeon's Killdozer!, for instance. What made that story work for me was that the lead character didn't stop and say, "Hmmm, interesting. The bulldozer is trying to kill me. I wonder what I ever did to it?" Instead, if he said anything at all, it was more along the lines of, "Uh-oh. Something has gone seriously wrong here. Maybe I'll figure out what it was later, but right now I'd better shut that thing down."
In Galactica, only two people had the opportunity to ask a cylon what their motives were. (Well, three really, if you count that throw-away ambassador at the beginning.) Of those two, one was more concerned about being executed as a traitor, while the other was too busy being grateful he'd brought a Maglite.
Yes, it would be nice to have some insight into the Cylon's motives, and as has been shown elsewhere, little tidbits were dropped here and there over the four-hour run. But later, later. Save the philosophical questions for when we're not having 95% of our population slaughtered.
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Got to put something in those prototypes and developer demos.
I think a much more interesting and important question is, if a non-Japanese company ever builds a humanoid robot, will it still look like Ultraman?
Take Sturgeon's Killdozer!, for instance. What made that story work for me was that the lead character didn't stop and say, "Hmmm, interesting. The bulldozer is trying to kill me. I wonder what I ever did to it?" Instead, if he said anything at all, it was more along the lines of, "Uh-oh. Something has gone seriously wrong here. Maybe I'll figure out what it was later, but right now I'd better shut that thing down."
In Galactica, only two people had the opportunity to ask a cylon what their motives were. (Well, three really, if you count that throw-away ambassador at the beginning.) Of those two, one was more concerned about being executed as a traitor, while the other was too busy being grateful he'd brought a Maglite.
Yes, it would be nice to have some insight into the Cylon's motives, and as has been shown elsewhere, little tidbits were dropped here and there over the four-hour run. But later, later. Save the philosophical questions for when we're not having 95% of our population slaughtered.