“Omg! They killed all my people! Zombies are surrounding me! I muust climb up high to get away! But first I must change into my nightie...”
If they can climb up one side of the heap why can’t they walk along and down the other side?
The blue paint was some forced attempt at symbolism that didn’t work.
I don’t think Rick is in that weak a position as Negan doesn’t know what Simon did (why Rick didn’t say about the junkyard when he said they just save people and don’t want to kill I just don’t know).
And the section titles out of nowhere, pointless and desperate attempt to stay fresh/arty. It doesn’t work as the story would be told the same way without them. Those titles didn’t focus particularly in that character as they were mostly scenes with other characters.
I honestly don’t think you can compare it to the comics as it’s quite different. That fondness you saw from Negan about Carl gets to play out, Rick is married to Andrea, Michonne is bonking Ezekiel, there are a lot more characters, Heath is knocking about and Denise was his girlfriend and died in the war, Rick has one hand.
There is a grenade attack on Alexandria, Negan takes Eugene (I think it’s during that attack though I can’t remember clearly my book is in a box somewhere from the move), Maggie is leading Hilltop up el duffo.