Star Wars: The Acolyte official trailer

[Wintermoot]

I get what you are saying, but then again the Jedi code literally begins "...There is no emotion, there is peace."

Maybe my problem is an application of show don't tell. They tell us that the Empire is evil and the Rebels are good, and we are supposed to take them at face value. But when we actually here evidence or philosophy, we are supposed to doubt it and disregard it as unreliable narrators.

I mean... the very first act we see the empire do is blow up an entire planet, killing billions of people, as a strong-arm tactic to force information from Leia and "as an example" of their power.

Seriously man, its like you stopped at "listening to what Palpatine says" and completely ignored everything Palpatine actually does. You are listening to the "tell" and willfully ignoring the "show".