Razorclaw X wrote:

The point wasn't to explain why Pluto was picking or choosing, simply

to

show that Pluto had some reason behind her actions.

  Pluto doesn't need any reason-- she's Machiavellian to the core. If
she wants something to happen, she lets/makes it happen. If she doesn't
want something to happen, she won't let it happen, and she'll step over
anything to get her way (even screw-up the timeline by sending back
Small Lady, etc.). In her own way, she's effectively God.

Except of course that on that occasion, Pluto's motives were perfectly
obvious.  She wanted to defeat the Black Moon Family.  

 She died because she froze time. That is the death penalty for her;
but the thing is she couldn't stand by and watch everyone die when
Diamond smashed the two silver crystals (the one from her time and the
one from the past) together.
 Pluto deserved this fate because she was playing God with the
timeline. Had she not acted, however, the Black Moon's siege of

Crystal

Tokyo would have been very successful-- but that still doesn't excuse
her Goddom.

It should be pointed out that this only hapened in the manga. In SMS

  I won't argue this, but I think the manga has better tastes (I mean
the logistical ones, hentai!).

Pluto
stops time so that Uranus and Neptune can escape... at least that's

what I

think she did.

  I wouldn't know (haven't seen any of the later anime eps), but if
that's the case, and she got off scot-free (I assume that's the case
because she'd still have to be alive in Sailor Stars) she's too darn
powerful to exist.

And now for a brief exchange from one of my works in progress:

Catty stared at the green-haired woman in disbelief.  "Setsuna?  
But I thought you were dead!"

She smiled a little.  "I am dead.  I'm also a time traveller."

"You mean...?"

"Yes.  Don't worry, I'll be there when I was needed."