10 Wild Ideas For The Perfect Suicide Squad 2
9. The Suicide Squad Are Not Half-Assed Amateurs
It’s understandable that David Ayer felt the need to have the first film act as the first mission for Task Force X: it’s movie-making 101 to have the introductory story be an origin story. It doesn’t really work here, however.
In order to overcome basic issues of suspension of disbelief that anyone in their right mind would try to herd these violent, unstable cats into undertaking even brute force intelligence work, you need to show it working like clockwork. You need to drop the audience into the story partway through: show them how a typical mission goes for Task Force X.
Typically, a Squad roster will comprise a core group of professionals backed up by a superpowered wild card or two. The professionals are men and women with experience pulling off successful operations (often, armed robberies and assassinations, but sometimes proper intelligence work) against high level, high value targets: they excel at what they do and have the attitude and competency that goes along with that.
In order to understand how the concept really works, you have to see it really working. The first movie dropped us into the Squad’s inaugural mission and had it immediately subverted, with Task Force X head Amanda Waller having put the team together to cover up her mistake in losing control of one of the original members of the Squad.
Why would anyone in Washington DC authorise a second mission after that fiasco?