Hello, you are right, when you feed it via a capacitive gap or directly from another microstrip, you have two same length lines. The resonant impedance will be high when each half is a half wavelength long. Though they are connected at the end, they appear as an open circuit. The waves from the two halves appear at the opposit side same time and same amplitude, but travel in opposite direction. Because of the opposite direction of travel, net current is zero. This equals +1 reflection coefficient, so an open circuit.
there is no E-field fringing at the opposite side as you normally have in a real open terminated line.
If you feed them from a line that runs along the resonator, you get a directional coupling and than this simple approach doesn't hold as the waves in both sides have different amplitude.