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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7690103" data-attributes="member: 177">What you said was, (and I quote now, as I did before), "that's a technique that runs counter to the goal of building a sympathetic protagonist"A sympathetic character (protagonist or otherwise) is one you care about. If you don't really need the details to care about the character, then, no, the technique doesn't run strongly counter to the goal. But, to address the issue of accessibility:  I think empirical evidence is against you here.  I see little sign that most of the audience finds the missing details make her notably less accessible.  As far as I can tell (looking at commentary and critique from several sources) she's one of the most successful characters the franchise has seen in decades.  That doesn't speak to her being inaccessible.  Whatever may be missing in backstory details has been more than made up for by the actress giving us insight to her emotional states and patterns.</blockquote>