Foreshadowing them might be fine, but it would still make more sense if that happened after the break in an early episode dealing with the whole status quo and "Negan is in prison" thing. Saving those teases for the otherwise sort of boring "look, we've made this whole interdependent communities model work" portion of the story, along with potential teases that the no-longer-Negan-led Saviors might still be a threat, and the whole Gregory attempted coup storyline (which if I were writing it I'd make the main source of immediate tension), will make the first half of next season a lot more interesting.
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