Was so excited when I saw the tweet about this just before! Honestly never really expected them to get him back for another appearance!
I briefly considered that he may just be in flashback, but I think with a return this major, it would be sort of a let down to only see him in flashback. Also, the scheduling probably took some doing to work it out if he’s also still shooting Revolution, and I can’t necessarily see them going to such effort for just a few flashback scenes.
Does this mean Belle is breaking Sydney out of the basement!? Also, think about this: he is a genie in a land with magic. He can do lots of things to protect the town and he knows all of Regina’s secrets!
With Regina suddenly out of town, I can totally see them wanting to pick Sidney’s brain. Question is, would he be willing to cooperate? If he’s still been locked up in the basement, no clue what’s been going on in town, and then they go to get him and tell him that his beloved Regina is gone, would he even be in the mood to help?
How many people even know he’s down there, apart from the Nurse? The only way Belle would really know is if she saw his name on the door on her way out, and maybe someone mentions him in present day and she’s like, “Wait, what did you say his name was?” Then they can go looking for him. Perhaps?
Also, just throwing it out there…OUATinWL has a genie as a main character, and there’s meant to be crossover with SB of some kind.
Yes, in FL if he had the power then why would he need the last wish? He is a Genie and a Genie wouldn’t need wishes to give him power he could just do anything especially since he was free.
The purpose of a genie’s magic is to use it to fulfill the wishes of others, they can’t just go around doing any type of magic any time for any reason. He was only able to use a wish himself, to be with Regina forever, because Leopold used his 2nd wish to give his 3rd wish to the Genie to use. I would imagine that in SB, he’d have his magic back and would be able to use it to help, as long as someone wished him to do so. That could actually play into what I said before, if he’s acting like he doesn’t want to cooperate with people who he knows as being against Regina. Maybe they’ll just be able to wish for him to do stuff, and he’ll be bound to comply.