It started with some promising atmospheric mystery. Which it eventually over-explained, with the explanations not hugely making sense.* There was also a lot of heavy-handed Symbolism and Foreshadowing, much of which turned out to be red herring.

Ah well, at least one of the failed foreshadows was a happy one for us: The bird did NOT die!

* I did get the pleasure of fix-fic-ing some of the problems. Many plot holes can be papered over by assuming that the Irish government (X-Files division) is fully aware of what's going on in this haunted wood, and that the protagonist's arrival there is no coincidence.