Originally Posted by
Ken Cheng
I'm beginning to believe what another member said about Jin Yong's decision to stop selling licenses to TVB to adapt his novels after HSDS '00 is true: it's not about TVB making a disaster of that series (which it was), as is often claimed, but it's about money. I think Jin Yong stopped selling the licenses to TVB not because he hated HSDS '00 so much (although he perhaps did), but because TVB was being cheap and not offering him a price he liked for the licenses. HSDS '00 was a travesty, but it wasn't any worse than these more recent adaptations from mainland China, etc., that are at least as bad, but for which Jin Yong did sell the licenses.