Yeah they definitely made up for it. I think it was just an early mistake in the writing Kirkman wanted to refine. It really doesn’t make sense that he considered the guardians a threat when it was that fucking easy to kill them all. The show did it much better by having them actually put up a decent fight and make Omni-man collapse from exhaustion at the end.

I’m so hyped for the action scenes and large scale fights that come later in the series.