It’s kind of hard to imagine why anyone wouldn’t want to see Warwick Davis alongside anyone in Hollywood again, but after only one season the funny and engaging show Life’s Too Short has been cancelled. While it might deal with a bit of controversy at times in how certain people are treated in Hollywood, the whole point of the show wasn’t to make fun of Davis or others like him, but show how smaller individuals in Hollywood deserve to show what they can do and how influential they can really be. Plus, it also showcased just how difficult life can be for Davis and those like him. So why in the world would anyone cancel a show that held such promise?
Well I can’t explain that really, but here are some reasons that others believe the show shouldn’t have been cancelled in the first place.
Warwick Davis is far more talented than a lot of people seem to think.
Ricky Gervais actually called Davis a comic in waiting. This is high praise from Gervais and it should have been laid out for those in charge of saying yay or nay to the show and it’s continued run. Davis is a very talented actor and has been showing a great deal of development in his career throughout the years. Many people don’t seem to realize that Davis has been around for some time, having been in the original Star Wars movie before moving on to do other projects such as Willow and then several other roles. His potential was almost squandered when he was tapped to do the Leprechaun movies, but thankfully he got to break away from this and begin to work on more serious roles that allowed people to see that he was for real and not just a gimmick actor.
The special at the end of its run actually teased a Willow sequel.
Fans must have lost their minds when they heard Val Kilmer and Davis talking about a possible sequel to the beloved film, but sadly it doesn’t look like it’s that serious of a thought. The episode in which this comes up was the last episode that the series got. No doubt a lot of fans already had it in mind that Davis would reprising his role as Willow Ufgood, which would be an awesome and nostalgic way to bring back the good old days, but it appears to have been more of an idle mention than anything, especially since someone would need to finance the project.
It portrayed little people in Hollywood in a positive light.
Too often those that lack the stature of what is considered a “normal” person are overlooked and not taken seriously when it comes to their desire to act. Davis’s character was there to insure that they did manage to gain employment and represented them in a way that was positive and uplifting despite his manipulative character. For such a serious issue one would have thought that it would garner at least another season to fully develop and discover this side of Hollywood, but it appears that no one really gave it that much thought.
The show was finally discontinued in 2013, but it could have easily run for another season or two before the material dried up.
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