User blog comment:Roranoa zoro/Smartest person in OP/@comment-5387880-20131123115022/@comment-91.115.172.86-20131123152919

Blackbeards plan wasn't perfect, I wouldn't even call it great:

He joins the Shichi in order to gain access to Impel Down. This is dumb on at least two levels 1) He doesn't actually use his status to gain access, but just starts attacking the jailers as soon as he shows up. He could have done that without having to become a Shichi first. 2) Even if he had tried using his status to get in, why would the WG let him into Impel Down? He had no business there. So his joining the Shichibukai was, overall, a waste of everyones time.