Have they made the character of Bond too important in his own universe?
Especially with the reboot... Bond is only 1 agent (the 7th out of... however many) and has only had one real mission and has disobeyed orders or gone rogue on the others. He's barely achieved success on any missions (he was even "killed" on one of his few official missions!) and gotten many people killed.
We as the audience know that he's saved the world many times over and is iconic, whereas the characters within the world (especially M) seem to think this as well, even though as a new agent messing about and disobeying orders would most likely be fired.
M following him around to every foreign country where there's a crisis, and presumably neglecting her other agents (as well as her paperwork and carbon footprint!) for this one guy who doesn't seem that great seems a stretch.
I can understand in the old timeline that his successes have allowed him a certain maverick leeway as the series went on (saving the world many times over would do that!) whereas the rebooted version is a little unbelievable that he's so revered so soon and sometimes makes me struggle to buy into the world of the film.
Just wandering what others think?
"What are you, some kind of doomsday machine, boy?"