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Aoshi shouldn't have known about the damn boat to begin with. Nobody would have told him, and he doesn't know or care about Shishio enough to be able to "predict his actions" the way Kenshin did. Kamatari didn't know about the thing.
And I'm not trying to be facetious when I say I have no idea what criticisms the remake was supposed to be addressing. There not being a big fight on the Rengoku didn't matter in the manga/90's anime because the final battles started three chapters/two episodes later, as opposed to the year-long gap the remake's had. Everyone managing to stop the fire from starting in the original was important because the heroes had been consistently losing since the start of the arc, and by turning it around and humiliating Shishio's forces it shows the heroes' growth before starting the final series of battles. In the remake, Misao can't get a single goddamn win and continues to look completely incompetent right before she's to be put in charge of defending the Aoiya.
But now I DO have complaints. Why were there more scenes with Cho, including one where Kamatari talks about him "not caring about morality," only for him to still not do anything? I thought they were building up to Cho helping that police captain to fight off henya and Kamatari, but instead that just sort of sputtered out. Kenshin and Aoshi's actual fight at Mt. Hiei will now have to be completely rewritten since Kenshin will now know going in that he can't just talk him to death. I'm willing to chalk it all up to "well, the season was set to end in an awkward spot and they tried to make it a decent climax," and stick around for the next season, but I've got a lot less optimism than I did going into the last two seasons.
