People were surprised by Sasha's play which they spent 1/3 of the episode telegraphing but not the garbage people flip?! I thought the episode was very entertaining and fit perfectly within my expectations for first battle of the war. I liked Negan having jump on Rick's group via the garbage people flip-flop even though the particulars were suspect-to-inexplicable, so what it was a cool double cross and really the first ever instance of Negan (beyond sheer numbers) being a formidable opponent strategy-wise.
Wish list for next season:
1. Hopefully we are done with Negan's speechifying over how he's gonna kill someone with the bat, its false menace at this point and we know they won't do it again b/c they lost viewers over Glenn/Abraham gore.
2. Dwight double agency is too ill-thought out & complex for them to execute well, if this is crux of next season it'll be rocky
3. In contrast the Eugene flip/betrayal is perfectly done and pretty interesting next options
4. More Tiger
5. For the love of God just let the Gregory thing drop, give us one scene where he tipped off Negan prior to what we just watched and then have Negan smother him with a blueberry pancake.