Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36512555-20200302063012/@comment-4961229-20200405061107

FlatZone wrote: The room that it was located in for the meetings was in a separate hideout, the Gedo when unattended is at the Mountains Geaveyard resting on the flower. If Itachi was going to try anything at all it would be there and when nobody was there and thats IF he knew where that was. Nobody but Oro, Kabuto, Zetsu and Obito knew where that place was. Nagato just summoned it to the other hideouts when sealing tailed beasts. Also, for the last time.. you want to know what the answer to your neckbeard rants are?? PLOT. Itachi didn't do any of that because of plot. Simple answer for ya kiddo. He didn't need to know where any such place was. Pain regularly summoned Gedo Mazo to wherever they needed when they sealed a tailed beast. That's several chances at least to show up in person and seal the statue. Yet I'm expected to believe that Itachi never once ended up in a room with Gedo Mazo? Or as you now claim, I'm expected to believe the invincible Itachi Uchiha is scared to act when there are others in the room? What are they gonna do?! He couldn't escape afterwards?! Take Gedo off the board and it's game over. It doesn't matter what happens after that. A super spy would fulfill the mission regardless of the fallout afterwards. It takes a split second to summon Susanoo and seal the statue by your logic. Why wait?!?

If he's too petrified to do that, Itachi can genjutsu information out of anybody. He couldn't find out where Gedo Mazo was? Kabuto tracked Obito down to his hideout with Gedo Mazo sitting in the basement. Kabuto is a much better spy than Itachi, the super spy?!? Really?!? Apparently so. Either that or Pain was so much better at hiding than Obito, the smell ya later, vanishing, space-time master. Neither of those conclusions are even remotely plausible.

Plot's one answer. Another is incompetence. Either one works.