Tirfarthuan wrote:Some exceptional fanfics have the Great Freeze lasting a very long time, and there are advantages to that. The longer it lasts, the more the Senshi will be praised for stopping it. If it had lasted five minutes, then there would be no Crystal Tokyo. A few weeks, and they become world heroes. A few years, and they would be revered. A hundred? More? Nobody cares about a person who ends a flash freeze, but what about a person who ends an ice age?
The cause of the Great Freeze is really variable. The more the senshi are personally responsible for it, through action or through inaction, the more despotic Crystal Tokyo tends to be, whether or not the senshi see it that way. The less responsible they are for it, the better Crystal Tokyo is as a future. I've seen some asteroid-caused ones for both of these.
That would actually be reason to think the senshi did not actually defeat the Dead Moon Circus as shown during the series., but I'm not sure why being good fighters would be reason to be given the very different job of running a country/city/planet?