Gallery: Star Wars: The Force Awakens—The WIRED Review

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    Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), backed by Stormtroopers of the First Order.
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    First Order baddie Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie)
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    Finn (John Boyega) assesses the wreckage of a downed TIE Fighter.
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    TIE Fighters tail the *Millennium Falcon* on the planet Jakku.
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    The *Falcon* leads a pursuing TIE Fighter into the massive wreckage of a downed Imperial cruiser.
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    The black and red livery of a First Order TIE Fighter pilot.
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    L-R: General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson, in a great Power-Mad Flunky performance) and C-3PO.
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    L-R: Rebel pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) and scavenger Rey (Daisy Ridley).
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    Captain Phasma stalks a hallway in the First Order's Starkiller Base.
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    First Order Stormtroopers in formation outside the Starkiller Base.
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    Poe Dameron heads into the fray on the planet Takodana.
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    Maz Kanata (Lupita Nyong'o) hands a storied lightsaber to a very special someone.
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    Finn (John Boyega) wields a lightsaber that glows a *very* familiar shade of blue.
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    Kylo Ren on Takodana.
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