nice. thanks! it reminds me of the original 三国演义 tv show, which I really enjoyed. But I have to point out that these shows tend to be good with storyline and great reproduction of lives in the olden days. But there tend to be little character development and acting is largely talking.
to me the pinnacle of wuxia would include:
张敏：倚天屠龙记
张曼玉：新龙门客栈
朱茵：大圣娶亲
you fall in love with these characters because their acting is very exciting as well as convincing.
Funny that you think 倚天屠龙记 has good acting. I remember watching it as a teen and thinking it was an atrocious butchering of the novel. The only reason I won't diss it is because it starred Jet Li.
In the 40 years of Jin Yong movie (not TV series) adaptations, I would say the only one that would count as a good movie is 东方不败. Everything else was just crap.
People tend to romanticize 90's HK cinema, but I first watched them as a mainland youth used to the high-quality works produced in the 80's, and 90% of those HK stuff was trash. That's to be expected of course, since most of those movies were made just to ride on the coattails of some other successes (the gambling series, for example). There were some gems of course, like 大话西游 (1 and 2), 赌侠, the aforementioned 东方不败, the 黄飞鸿 series (at least the first 3).
ANYWAY, if you or anyone else reading this is looking for something new to watch, I highly, highly recommend this:
Probably the best show I've seen in a long while.
