Oh man, suckered into watching another one of these period/fantasy dramas with cheesy CGI and flying kung fu. Starts off strong - very RPG-esque kind of setup with the plot development, but ultimately gives way to dragging, repetitive plot devices that slowly killed my interest in the series - to the point where I genuinely contemplated skipping over solid chunks of dialogue just to get to the ending. On a positive note, the CGI wasn't used excessively - the qi reinforced sword strikes actually looked kind of cool during fights. There really wasn't anything spectacular about the female cast, aside from them being really pretty. It might just be me and my pet peeve though, I don't find things believable if in my mind it seems too stupid for people to do - i.e the protagonists repetitively falling for similar, not-so-elaborate traps set up by the antagonists. I didn't like how the two main female roles ended up being weak (one completely manipulated, and the other completely powerless as a character, despite alleged "saint" abilities that she uses like once.) In that regard my distaste is more so directed at the character/plot design and not so much the actresses themselves, kind of like how in some movies a simple cellphone call would resolve the entire plot-line. I did however especially like the casting of Bai Li Han (William Feng) - he has the deep, villainous voice that fits his role. Oh, and the male lead playing two different personalities was kind of cool too. I'm a bit undecided on how I feel about the series as a whole. I thought the beginning was great, the plot development was good (up until a point) but the ending... a complete cop out. It's a fantasy world so it's open to interpretation, but if you follow the storyline you get to one conclusion; if you follow context clues, you get to another. (Pay attention to the appearance of the glowing flying fish - about as much as I can say without giving away my own interpretation of the ending) Watch if you like fantasy/wuxia, skip if you don't.