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I'm somewhere before the pissing scene in the book. Blackthorne is more pro-active, he tries to learn the customs, and pick up words, get a general feeling about their situation. So he's more like in the first miniseries in this sense. On the other hand, in the new series he walks weird and looks frail, from the book that makes sense for all of em, the sailors that is, suffered illnesses, scurvy in the firs place. Tho in the book from the scurvy they were recovering fast for they got boiled and fresh veggies in the Japans. I imagine they suffered wounds, that not heal properly due to lack of vit C so such could cause permanent damage in health. In the old miniseries however Blackthorn seems fit as a fiddle.