watched 7 and 8.

Some good parts but both episodes felt really short - at least, to me. The piano scene could have been a whole episode on it's own.

So, are these Cylons meant to be an updated design that fits somewhere between the classic era and the nubsg era? - or are they some sort of genetic experiment?

Caprica ended with a handful of designs but in Razor we saw that the Caprica era design were still being used at the end of the war.

Hopefully we'll find out a lot more about them before the end.