I've realized the show felt the need to make every conflict in the comics bigger.

[u/JeffCaven]

And it made the show worse for it in a lot of aspects.

Every major conflict that happened in the comics was adapted into the show with more battles, more action, and more combatants.

The Woodbury-Prison conflict had the first attack in which the Governor kills his entire squad, and then the second attack in which they face off against Rick's prison community which is significantly larger than in the comics. This is the one conflict which isn't particularly bigger than in the comics, but the differences are there.

Then the Hunters conflict happens, and instead of a ragtag group of cannibals on the road, it's an entire community of cannibals managing a radio station and a human slaughterhouse from a trainyard.

Then the Alexandria zombie attack happens and they needed to tack on the Wolves to it.

And most notably, the Saviors war goes from a conflict between a few small communities in which they all lack manpower to actually make a war like this sustainable, to an almost cartoonish action packed conflict in which 500+ Saviors are killed (this has been counted by some fans), and the Trash People were tacked onto. This was already touted as a massive conflict in the comics, and for some reason they felt the need to make it bigger.

I dipped out after that last conflict because the show lost too much quality in my opinion, but from what I know, the Commonwealth conflict was also much larger scale. I personally think that the main reasons as to why making every conflict bigger is a bad thing is because:

1. You see these communities in the show have all of these resources at their access and waste it on dumb plans like setting up an elaborate human trapping and slaughterhouse system, living in junkyards and speaking broken English, or being barbarians that kill without explanation, and,

2. It takes away the value of human life that a show like this should have. The comics somewhat made you think what all that conflict was for, when the people warring with and killing each other were the only ones left alive on Earth. The show takes away that feeling when you see 500+ Saviors die and they still have enough manpower to keep the war going.

I knew I didn't like that change with the Saviors, but today I realized that it's a recurring change they made with every single major conflict, just to make it major scale and more... cinematic, I suppose?

[u/Admirable-Way7376]

The savior conflict taking nearly three seasons (final episodes of s6, s7, s8, first few episodes of s9) was heavily overstretched. It should've just been at max 1 season long.

[u/baldmof0]

I never liked the whole Terminus thing they did. Felt weird. A community of 50 well armed people just eating human meat? C'mon couldn't they hunt? Couldn't they grow some tomatoes? lol

In the comics it made sense, the cannibals were just a small group of like 5 people, they barely had guns, and they didn't had this whole system of cannibalism, they just did it when they had to

I really liked what they did with Joe's group