katikat: (F_POTC)
I finished Acapulco HEAT S1! Tommy's hands down my favorite character, that's why I loved eps that focused on him, more or less, like the one that took place in Israel where Tommy posed as a martial arts trainer. Or the one where he, Cat, Marcos and Chrissy were stranded on a deserted island, that was lovely.

Funny thing, we got to know more about him than about anyone else on the team, Mike and Ashley, the leaders, included. I mean, we know that his great-grandfather was a Pocomoke Indian and that it was he who taught Tommy martial arts, that Tommy went to martial arts tournaments as a teen, that his parents sent him to a survival training when he was 16, that he went to university in Hongkong, that he studied astrology, that he's a practicing zen Buddhist and that he knows a lot about mind control.

I also loved all the scenes Tommy had with Cat. Either the actors were amazing at their craft or they enjoyed those scenes immensely, too. It wasn't just the dialogues, which were scripted, it was their reactions, their body language. They poked and prodded each other, making faces at each other... It was so lovely, like when Tommy grabbed Cat's hands and started pulling her way and she pouted and dragged her feet, being all, "I don't wanna!" It was really cute :)
katikat: (T_Lime)
I'm still on an oldies trip. This time, it's Acapulco H.E.A.T. which ran 1993-1994. Here's the intro:



It's about a special unit based in Puerto Vallarta that deals mostly with terrorists, kidnappers and so on. It's a team of eight people. The leaders are Ashley and Mike, veteran agents, MI6 and CIA respectively, then there's Brad the bomb expert, Tommy the martial artist, Chrissy the computer geek, Cat the cat burglar and Marcos the local contact, and also Arthur their, well, sorta butler slash manager. The stories are simple and the acting mostly atrocious, but it's still fun.

My reason for watching this has always been Tommy and Cat played by Michael Worth and Alison Armitage respectively. They were usually paired up on the show whenever something physical needed to be done: she could sneak in anywhere and he covered her back. They were just friends in S1. But in S2, which was filmed 4 years later, they were the only one who stayed in Puerto Vallarta and they got a new team. It was also hinted at that there might be something between them which was why they stayed together while everybody else had split. Tommy and Cat were awesome together because they liked to tease each other a lot. He made fun of her many boyfriends, she made fun of his non-existent love life.

You see, I just adore Michael Worth, another B movie action star. He's half white, half Native American of the Delaware tribes and his Native American background was used on the show, which is lovely. Also, his shoulder to waist ratio is out of this world! *_* Yes, I'm shallow like that :P

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