O'Meara: I agree with you entirely on O'Brian's Maturan. However, I think it would have been very difficult to develop that Maturan properly in 2+ hours, with everything else that was going on. I expect that he would have come across as a buffoon, which he certainly wasn't, if he had been portrayed, as you put it as personally sloppy, always wearing an ill-fitting wig, having to be helped by the crew to get aboard or depart the ship, and to get into the rigging on those rare occasions when he tried it. As it is, I think the writers did a reasonably good job with the character, within the time and format limitations.