Some bits seem to have nothing to do with the overall plot but are demanded by tradition.
In England, St. George fights a Turk, who defeats him, to much booing and hissing from the audience. A Good Doctor then comes and saves St. George, to wild cheering. A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance. On the ocean, a nautical mile measures 6,080 feet. A land or statute mile is 5,280 feet.