This was an interesting angle on the opener and assessing the various sides from a strategic POV. It's at least a bit different from most of the articles I run across.
I also agree about Sansa, she's such an ISJ type. She is asking all the practical relevant questions and somewhat being blown off, but they are very important logistical questions that you have to answer to keep a war effort (and, later, a country) going.
Game of Thrones season 8 episode 1, explained by political science - Vox
I'm still kinda big on Sansa ending up ruling at least the North if not everything, if there is a ruler after this. Stepping back, she has gone from a silly wide-eyed girl with flights of romantic fancy to this woman who has survived the most awful depravities and seen most people she loved die. She is loyal to her family. She is loyal to her people. She understands responsibility. She understands practicality. Her understanding of a ruler's obligations to her followers is very rooted in the notion of servant leadership. It makes that scene even earlier where Brienne pledges to her in the woods and she tries to respond but Podrick has to help her remember the words even more endearing.... we have seen Sansa's ENTIRE growth pattern, and she might have been the most changed surviving character, she's had an actual growth arc. (Well, maybe Jaime and Theon would be the other obvious ones.) Many of the other characters are still pretty much what and who they were at the beginning, just moreso.
As a side note, something I found interesting is how drastic have been the changes during this tumultuous time. There has been a HUGE shift in power in the last eight years in Westeros (or however long the show's arc falls across) -- literally all the old House rulers are dead. That's incredibly quick for a landscape to change. It's most apparent when you see the 10-year-old kids suddenly being rulers over their houses, there were at least three of those. But there's almost no "old guard" left. Even the Night's Watch is in young hands (as Edd and Jon weren't really members for too long before Jon became the leader and now Edd is). And Dorne, which we are barely aware of... their ruling house was gutted as well.
Like, EVERYTHING has changed. If you want to break the wheel, well, they certainly broke the ruling leaders across all of Westeros. The major houses are all in turmoil.
Here's another interesting article:
Game of Thrones season 8 premiere: how will the show end? - Vox
Similar to some of these thoughts, I'm really not sure where the show is going and I have trouble thinking they can resolve (1) the Night King war and (2) the Westeros war in five episodes, legitimately. I feel like things will be rather glossed over and/or simplified. I think Benioff and Weiss did decently when they had books to adapt, but not working from scratch per se. They've just always had trouble with pacing in terms of realistic development of characters and plot events. I have a feeling we're going to get a more conventional ending than GRRM would have imagined or will include in his actual story.
I am expecting the battle of Winterfell to happen in Episode 3, based on what I've read and what I'm feeling from episode 1. There will likely then also be some kind of conflict down at King's Landing -- but I'm not sure whether that's just North again South, or Walkers against Humans (and then against North/South or North caught between Walkers and South. That would have to be by Episode 5, and 6 would be resolution of every major plotline (in 80 minutes, somehow).