I really enjoy retellings and this particular version of the Mahabharata IN!! SPACE!!!! is no exception. There's something extremely cool and interesting about knowing that the story is based in a specific narrative tradition, but not knowing the actual story (which is a shameful absence in my education, but we'll leave that for now) and wondering which elements come from the author and which from the myth. The not-knowing adds an element to character choices as well - the sense of fatedness that these people are both choosing AND cannot act differently than they've chosen.
But Mandanna does a really good job with this mashup and now I just get to sit and wait for the finale.