Padawan Training
The trailer opens with a Jedi Master teaching a room full of meditating padawans at the Jedi Temple—later shots will show a cityscape that leads us to assume this is the primary Jedi Temple on Coruscant, but a regular aspect of the Jedi Order’s role during the High Republic era so far has been that temples and outposts were in operation across the Republic, and Jedi were much more commonly out in the wider galaxy instead of restricted to its core.
The Jedi Master tells his students: “Close your eyes… your eyes can deceive you. We must not trust them.” Obviously this is a common Jedi training method—after all, Luke first learns his ways to feel through the Force by covering his eyes, switching off targeting computers, and so on, but this also feels like a mission statement for The Acolyte: don’t believe everything you see.
