Me too, thought someone had hit rewind.... I was like "what the heck is happening, we just saw all of this?!" Made no sense to me as to why they did this but can see what you mean about the repetitiveness/monotony of their day to day lives and every day would be like hitting rewind.
I wasn't crazy for Denise at all up until last night and then we started to get to get to know her a bit and I thought "hey I may start to like her" but WHAM! Nope....never saw that coming at all.
Worry about Carol leaving Alexandria and the whole Melissa McBride interview a few weeks ago and how after the season finale show she was speechless and felt like she had been dropped into a black hole....I think because of her leaving and Daryl racing off in the sneak peek for next week's episode, these two character's decisions are going to quite a few in danger and we already know major character(s) will die but starting to panic a little. When they say major, I always hope they mean the last ones to join the group who are now considered weekly characters and not OUR major originals like Rick, Michonne, Carol, Daryl, Carl and Judith....Morgan was an original as well but disappeared for such a long period.
I do think Morgan will play a big part in what's going to happen....