This has to be one of the worst season opener. You mean to tell me that they were shooting blanks and no one got hit. What was the purpose of bringing the zombies to Negan? They overkill the speech about who won... how many times i needed to hear the same... Rick girlfriend got hit very hard on her right eye, yet in the next scene it was like nothing happened. The entire scene of the priest getting stuck with the zombies was so stupid... there is more but i will not go and watch again this low budget episode... very disappointed of season premiere.
There were TWO future time jumps in this episode that explain some of it. Why they did the jumps, who knows. But they will eventually happen.
1: Short jump where Rick is standing in front of the graves.
2: LONG jump at least 3 years later, where "old Rick" wakes up in bed, uses a cane, and Judith is 5~ years old.