User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 201 "Happy New Year!" discussion/@comment-432124-20120502211212/@comment-5046348-20120502213141

I'm going to quote myself from earlier in this thread. A time skip is perfectly logical if the show runner wants an Invasion plotline. Unless you want the 16 hours to be discarded then there has to be a time skip because an invasion doesn't work.

First the aliens are going to have to find the Earth, which unless the Light sent the League with a map to leave behind, is going to take a while. Next the aliens are going to have to get here which even with faster than light travel and teleportation tech is still a job and a half.

Then we reach the stage we appear to be at now, recon and infiltration, because launching a blind assualt against a planet of billion who defeated them with just six people doesn't sound like a great plan.

Your likely to follow this with sabotage and a propaganda campaign which we also seem to be getting. Maybe then you can launch your invasion. :P My guess is five years prep for a planetary invasion is pretty reasonable.