She was fine in Panic Room.

That's what makes the character development so satisfying.

You just cant handle his level awesomeness.

The weird thing about Skyfall is that like The Dark Knight Rises, it does sort of offer lip service to the idea that maybe the world isn't as black and white as it's been depicted, and tries to question the institutions at first. But both films basically end with the stays who more rigidly entrenched than ever and the main character undergoing a sort of rebirth of his super-masculinity. It's weird. Even though M left Silva to be tortured and then he came back for understandable revenge, in the end she dies nobly and we're back to having everyone in place. That being said, it isn't anything new-accusations of fascism (arguably justifiably) have been thrown at all kinds of action heroes-Bond, Batman, Jack Bauer, Dirty Harry, pretty much every superhero. To the point where Starship Troopers mounts a pretty witty satire of it.