Way too sentimental-sometimes the writers didn't seem to know how to add variety to the plot. Having not one but TWO reunions with the parents was a bit much-even if one reunion was a fantasy. Jia seemed childlike and one-dimensional-and it wasn't believable that she was the object of Yeon's fascination for 600 years. I did appreciate the fact that Yeon wasn't your standard pretty-boy Korean hero, and that he had a unique look.
Special effects were lacking. If you're going to do a series about a nine-tailed fox, the audience should catch a glimpse of him looking like an actual fox now and then. Same goes for the serpent. Endless, endless threats to the lives of Yeon or Jia throughout the series made the ending a tedious anticlimax. Too much concentration on food in scene after scene. Whenever one of the bad guys was supposed to be in "evil" mode he/she smirked constantly--an overused device. The background music was saccharine without being moving and effective. Seemed like a fairly low-budget production.
Special effects were lacking. If you're going to do a series about a nine-tailed fox, the audience should catch a glimpse of him looking like an actual fox now and then. Same goes for the serpent. Endless, endless threats to the lives of Yeon or Jia throughout the series made the ending a tedious anticlimax. Too much concentration on food in scene after scene. Whenever one of the bad guys was supposed to be in "evil" mode he/she smirked constantly--an overused device. The background music was saccharine without being moving and effective. Seemed like a fairly low-budget production.