We don’t know yet whether GA will be in every episode of the new season. One of the stipulations in her contract could be that she films enough scenes to guarantee Scully appears in every episode, but that her scenes in some episodes will be limited. My worry is that Scully will be taken on board that alien spaceship and we’ll only see glimpses of her for the first 3 or 4 episodes.

It’s possible, but 3 or 4 episodes out of 10 without Scully is too many, and I think Fox know that. I’m prepared to have one, maybe two episode without her, because I have the feeling it was one of the negociation point for Gillian, but they can’t seriously do more than that without her. 

I assume they heard the bad critics from last season, I hope they learnt from their mistakes, and I hope this time they’re listening to the fans. They were lucky for the Revival, everyone was waiting for it, they had that waiting effect playing for them on the ratings. It won’t be the same case this time. People who’re not hardcore fans and who’ve been disappointed once have to be re-seduced since the first episode of season 11, and it won’t happen if Gillian’s not in it.