Serialized Bites: LOST the Final Goodbye, Nikita Pics, More!

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Today’s Serialized Bites serves up news of LOST‘s near-$2million prop auction. Why Michael Emerson believes that more LOST answers are coming soon. A raft of Nikita promotional photos. The chance to get your hands on a print signed by the entire Walking Dead cast. PLUS, a casting spoiler for the upcoming season of Chuck!

LOST: The Official Show Auction was held in Santa Monica over the weekend. Among the highest bids? Hurley’s red and white Camaro, which sold for $24,000. While the Swan Station computer and hatch door sold for $19,200. The Pilot script signed by creators, JJ. Abrams and Damon Lindeloff, went for $18,000. That’s some cheddar right there!

Other items sold included a copy of Sawyer’s favorite reading material – “Watership Down”, and a set of Oceanic-branded water bottles. Saturday’s session alone totalled around $900,000 and it has been reported that the two days combined nearly reached the $2 million figure. Wow, the show really is over, huh?

[NY Times]

Meanwhile, Michael Emerson, who played Benjamin Linus, has been doing his best to promote the upcoming LOST Season 6 DVD. In recent a roundtable interview with reporters, Emerson claimed that there are still more answers to be had by way of the special “New Man In Charge” epilogue, which has already been teased:

“I think the chapter is a nice addition to the Lost narrative—nice to have some of the more particular or practical questions answered, since the finale took a more spiritual tone,” said Emerson during a virtual roundtable with journalists.

The set is stuffed with additional bonus features and will be released tomorrow, along with the Lost: The Complete Collection DVD and Blu-ray collection.

Emerson doesn’t have any complaints these days when it comes to the journey Ben ended up on. “I loved the entire arc and was especially delighted with Ben’s end in the finale. It was finer and more satisfying than anything I could have imagined,” he said.

“I think what’s perfect about the Ben storyline is that we are never certain where he falls on the scale of good and evil. It’s a tribute to the skill of the writers that the audience could never be certain about Ben, even to the very end,” said Emerson. When it comes to closure and the conflicted Ben, “I’m actually more interested in moments of un-closure, like Ben’s end in the finale,” said Emerson, referencing the fact that Ben decided not to head off to the afterlife with the other Losties when the story came to an end after six seasons.

[Blastr]

While the CW’s Nikita looks set to be a very much mission-of-the-week fare, it will also have an ongoing story-arc which we hope the show embraces. Until we know better we’ll give it some coverage (and not just because Maggie Q is smoking hot. Honest). Here are the various promotional photos that have been released:

Thanks to Buck for sending these through [CW]

FXUK, the channel airing The Walking Dead in the United Kingdom, are giving fans a chance to win a print signed by the entire cast:

We have an exclusive, one off, competition for the true Zombie fans to try their hand at winning a Walking Dead flyer signed by the entire cast.  All you have to do is answer this question:  ”Which British actor will star in the Walking Dead?”  Please post your answer on the FXUK Walking Dead Facebook page. The competition closes Friday August 27th. Winners will contacted via Facebook.

Click here to enter.

Tia Texada has signed up for a guest role on Chuck. The actress will reportedly play Hortencia, the wife of Armand Assante’s character Premier Alejandro Goya, and will appear in the fourth episode of the new season. Hortencia is said to be passionate but hiding a secret. The main characters will encounter Hortencia when President Goya invites them to the island.

[TV Guide]

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