I overall enjoyed it, and i'm happy to have the show back, but there were some things that put me off a bit.
On Talking Dead the executive producer said that this episode was supposed to take place 7 months after Woodbury. I personally think it might have been interesting and a smoother transition to see the show start a little earlier than 7 months later, so we'd get to see the adaptation period of the new people coming in to the jail, and how the main characters also adapted to them. All of a sudden, many things were different than usual, including the roles of the core group, as well as the bunch of new characters who were shown as completely integrated to the group. I thought that was a bit jarring after being used to dynamics of the smaller group. I would've liked some more exposition there.
Also, it felt like a slower pace than the last few seasons (except season 1, which still feels the slowest to me). By the end the episode, though, the new dynamics and characters started to settle in for me, and the pace had picked up.
The raining zombies incident was interesting and different, but in a good way here
Another thing that this episode did successfully is plant a lot of seeds for things to come throughout this season; it set up a good amount of suspense and anticipation. I'm pretty excited for the upcoming episodes! :thumbs: