It's been thirty-six years, but now that SPW '84 is available again on TVB's Wuxia YouTube Channel, I'm going to be taking the plunge and trying to watch this series completely for the first time beginning Monday.
I never finished it the first time. I doubt I got more than four or five episodes into it in my 1984 viewing, and I remember it being a bit of a hot mess (especially with egregious overuse of animated effects), but I'll give it another shot and see if I like (or even understand) it better the second time around.