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I just can't understand how that's the same writer & director.

Well, the stabbing scene is from the KR movie version. So in that sense it's not out of nowhere.

Maybe it's so you can Choose Your Own Adventure if both are dead in the end, both are alive in the end, or one is dead and the other is alive. Or whatever else you'd like to fanfic.

It's up there with the part where the psychopath girl wants the guy who impregnated and 'killed' her sister to also impregnate her, and bursts out into fiery rage when she doesn't get that.

Apparently so she could control Oh Young and so that Oh Young would depend on her (making Wang irreplacable). It doesn't make a lot of sense to me though.

Either you see a fictional future / dream world / heaven / whatever, or they're both alive.
Maybe they couldn't decide between the endings of the two previous versions (JP drama & KR movie).

The gambling part could have been deleted entirely and it would have made for a better show. It was like any of those episode 1 openers that have nothing to do with what happens throughout the drama.

I'd wager 90% of the characters could be described as 'not consistent'.

A "nobody knows, pick what you want" ending.

It's not an unhappy ending, but I'm not sure I would call it a happy ending. It's more an unspecific ending.

"The first episodes are terrible" and "the last episodes are terrible" are important mainstays of dramas. This one dips its feet on both ends of that pool.

[spoilers for other work]
In https://kisskh.at/683-love-me-not , I suppose both die. In this one – who knows. It's "choose your own interpretation" stuff.

1. Unknown
2. None are two-sided
3. The classic "can't live without each other", I suppose
4. Uhhh... perhaps not? Hard to say.

I can't believe Noh Hee Kyung wrote It's Okay, That's Love just one year later. That one has some of the most realistic characters seen in dramaland, while That Winter, The Wind Blows has the least realistic and least consistent ones. The only similarity (besides the ML actor) is the comma in the middle of the name...

The ending of TWTWB feels like a full-blown writer's guild strike.

Both are https://kisskh.at/5178-ai-nante-irane-yo-natsu

In the Mandarin version, when Zixia accepts the Bull's marriage proposal, she says "I do" in English.

The (allegedly 11 minutes longer) extended edition seems to only be available in Mandarin. A pity, as I thought it was a tad nicer watching the movie in Cantonese.

The very early scene with the toad and peacock that was even teased in Part One and is not usually part of Part Two in my opinion helps establish the logic of Zixia's character and also helps another scene further in make more sense.

I would also say that a repeat viewing greatly helped me keep track of who is who.

This movie is so elusive, it's not even listed on IMDb...

Two things I'm confused by in this rather bad movie:
The main leads make it through the fight at the wedding otherwise unscathed: Joker does not go on to become Wukong, and Zixia survives with him. What happens to them then? Are they yet ANOTHER incarnation of the two, or do they get memory-wiped and become the two coupled at the end of Part Two?

And who were they anyway? Were they the two from the end of Part Two? If so, how does that Zixia know about the future and how does she have pandora's box? Or was it the two from the start of Part Two, namely the 'real' Joker when he first meets Zixia, and if so, why were they a fresh couple? It's like they combined the end-of-P2 Joker with the start-of-P2 Zixia for P3?

(Ending spoilers!!) so what happens with the main couple?, etc

In this one at least the demons aren't censored into being aliens. Otherwise slightly worse across the board.

There seem to be weird audio mixing issues: you regularly hear people breathe way too loudly in quiet scenes, while at other times fight scenes are too silent.