Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36512555-20200302063012/@comment-9782468-20200405203921

FlatZone wrote: and Squinty, you of all people know that line of reasoning is bullshit. Itachi is not the main character and the Gedo Mazo is too important to the story, PLOT demands that Itachi would have never even tried it No, the idea that you can explain away anything by saying "plot" when the series is showing Itachi as less capable than what you wished (despite him already being massively capable anyways), that's the bull right there.

Itachi never tried, and one of the reasons he may have never tried is because he knew he couldn't.