Anime Thoughts: Planetes

Now that I'm in the habit of rewatching anime series every so often, I don't seem to lack for ideas of what to return to; they show up well in advance of what seems the right time to start watching. It may be, though, that I started with the feeling that the last series I would rewatch this year would have to be in some way significant, as I already had the different feeling that most if not all of my repeat viewing in 2009 should and would be of the component series of Robotech, 2009 being the distant and futuristic date when the fighting began in that saga. When the idea came to me to rewatch Planetes, a science fiction series I finished only a bit over two years ago by my records but which somehow feels further back in the past perhaps thanks to all the stuff I get through these days, it seemed like a good one.
( Garbage collectors in space are more interesting than you might think... )