As hard as it was to watch, I guess it was necessary to establish how far Negan is willing to go to control the group. I will miss the characters who were slaughtered but everyone would have been pissed off if they had killed insignificant characters.
People are moaning about the gore and brutality on twitter but erm.. have they not been watching for the last 6 seasons? It's always been gory as shit.
I do think it's one of the best episodes they've done, I was on the edge of my seat throughout. I cant wait for someone to kill Negan, that alone will keep me watching.
Sadly I have a feeling we will lose some more of the cast before the season's over.