For how secretive they have always been with this whole series, giving away at all that Andrew Lincoln was leaving BEFORE this season opened was incredibly stupid to do.
It was even further stupified that they said how many more episodes he had left.
THEN the cherry was pretty much spoiling a lot of the next episode right after it went to black.
They should have killed him off and THEN had him on Talking Dead to announce his shocking departure. THAT is how you do it. This way is sloppy and, sorry to be redundant..... STUPID.