You know, I had watched about fifteen minutes of the special on Youtube (somewhere in the middle with the Imperial troopers invading the house) and I was thinking to myself, "Well, this must be the new 'in' thing, everyone's hating on the Special because it was made in the 70's." It couldn't be that bad, right?

Then I saw the special.

My hopes and dreams came crashing down around me in a brilliant display of bad pyrotechnics.

I will never be the same.

EDIT: To be honest, though, I always get this giddy thrill at the end when the thing is finally over and the main theme music from SW kicks in over footage from the first film.