Wow what a wild and silly interpetation. There's nothing that says the humans mistreated Cylons, the Cylons simply evolved beyond human control and got pissy. The Cylons weren't "pushed" into anything, after the treaty was signed the Cylons went away and hid, ignoring the space station we put up for further peaceful contact until they were ready to attack again (first move, blow up the space station).
It's not obsessed with torture, it's a discussion point: can you torture something that's not actually alive? Tigh's not power crazed, he got in over his head (never wanted to command, and learned why when he had to) and paniced. Actually the rape wasn't justified.
Funny all that supposed super leftist stuff in the show is stuff YOU inserted. I've been watching the original series too and one of the things that strikes me is how many of the major plot points in the new version were there in the original, treated more lightly of course but still there.
Ok, maybe I shot off about nothing, just seemed odd to me that NR would be writing something like this.
As I said, other than the pilot, I have not watched the new show, this is hearsay from websites. Nevertheless; it's an opinion shared by other people I know of the left-leaning agenda of the series. And by comments made by creater, producer Ron Moore.
I went back and reread my post and yeah it does come off as a flame, which was not really intended. If you like the show by all means watch it and enjoy it, still to me I can't help but see IMHO a strong leftest agenda. Perhaps it is me, I'm preconditioned to see it in anything from Hollywood.