Awesome / Vivo

• Vivo is the highlight of the public square in Havana. He and Andres motivate a disinterested crowd to dance and sing with them while earning enough money to pay their expenses. What's more, Vivo says it doesn't matter if the crowd is disinterested because you can always encourage someone to move their feet. He proves it by dancing with a girl and inviting her to take a selfie with him and Andres.
• Andres manages to encapsulate his feelings for Marta in two pages of sheet music, talking about how he let her go so the world could see her shine. His lyrics assess it doesn't matter if Marta returns his feelings or not, and he only asks that she carry him in her heart, to remember him. It's very classy, and you can see why it moved Marta as she finally read it.
• Credit to Vivo and Gabi; they are both Determinator duo when committing to the quest to deliver Andres's sheet music to Marta. Some highlights of their quest:
  • Gabi outbikes the Sand Dollars and thinks of going to the next stop when Olivia makes them miss the bus. Vivo also conducts himself well on distraction duty, despite spraying himself in the eye with silly string. Even when it seems they're about to fall into the ocean, they end up on a barge instead with only the wind knocked out of them.
  • The two fashion a sailboat to go through the Everglades. They make it quite far before the duo gets separated and the Sand Dollars catch up to Gabi.
  • Vivo immediately comes up with a plan to distract Lutador and save Gabi, despite being a tiny kinkajou. He ends up succeeding by tricking the snake into tying himself up in knots around a tree.
  • Gabi doesn't have any formal music training. Vivo also can't write sheet music. But when Andres's sheet music is destroyed, they realize some things they do know; Vivo can sing back the melodies, and Gabi memorized the lyrics. With the help of her phone, they manage to recreate the music. As an added bonus, Marta recognizes Gabi's face in the concert hall, and calls her a new friend.
  • When they finally make it to Miami Beach, the Sand Dollars lend Gabi a scooter and helmet. Gabi spans the distance between the docks and the Mambo Cabana in about twenty minutes if you go by the song lyrics, while singing in perfect sync with Vivo. She's not even out of breath when they make it!
  • They almost make it to the entrance with five minutes to spare...but Gabi doesn't have a ticket and her mother finds her, ordering her to not move. Realizing they don't have a choice, Gabi hops the line and runs from security, while Vivo helps her scare them off in time to reach a stairway. Showing that she was in this quest to help her Tio, Gabi makes Vivo leave her behind when it seems she can't continue, telling him it's more important that Marta gets the song.
• Dancarino and Valentina save Vivo when he runs afoul of Lutador. As thanks for him helping them get together, they give him an aerial view to find Gabi in the Everglades. Dancarino hesitates about confronting the snake but agrees to do it for Vivo's sake.
• Marta adds one last song to her farewell concert: Andres's song but arranged for a larger band. The musicians take it in stride, improvising to go with the simple chores and Marta's piano playing. Everyone in the concert hall is moved by the performance, including Vivo. Vivo sees a vision of Andres approach Marta and he dances with her, before tipping his hat to Vivo in farewell.
• Stubbornness and quick thinking run in Gabi's family: when Rosa finds out that Gabi is missing and that she purchased a bus ticket, she chases the bus down in her car and confronts the driver. While her subsequent reaction is natural - she's begging the driver if he saw her daughter and he reveals that he would have recognized a purple-haired girl with glasses— she goes for Plan B when realizing Gabi never made it on the bus: the Mambo Cabana. It's bad for Gabi and Vivo since she busts them right as Gabi is about to either bluff her way in or buy a ticket, but pretty awesome for a scared mom.
• "My Own Drum" is this for Ynairaly Simo, given how fast that she has to rap and own the chaotic rhythm. She kills the song, keeping pace with established professionals like Lin Manuel Miranda.

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