Cave_Canem
Giant Transforming Robot
To be fair, in the show they had just been genocided by the Cylons and weren't feeling particularly charitable towards them, and by the time the latter part came out they had bigger issues.One of my major major disappointment of the tv show was there never a moment where the cast of battlestar sat down and realized and discussed they aren't fighting "toasters" there fighting people and the so called toasters were them self's people. Of course If I recall correctly it was never clearly stated till that canceled show where the cyclone comes from.
Or that the fact the chipped human clones basically turned around and betrayed the true cyclones. Ah god I hated the final season of BSG.
But that's one reason I went with the current time, as might have been seen with the Marines here - the Colonials still distrust Cylons for sure, but there are at least some of them that are more willing to hear them out, like the Sargeant that realised that an AI which *did* follow orders to shut down only to be left to rot does actually have legitimate reasons for not trusting them.