>>807 Hello! I'm on route to my holiday destination, so I don't promise accuracy and good memory for dates.
When I last resurfaced in the fandom a few months ago I saw a screen-cap of a tweet Taffy wrote in reply to a friend of hers, it was soon after the profile was published. Basically this friend wrote that Taffy gave her and TH the same talk, Taffy's reply was that they both deserved better or that they were both better than that (I can't remember the exact wording, sorry).
Anyway, this told me two things: first, Taffy took side and decided that TH is better than TS. Second, her decision came after her conversations with him, which means that he told more than the interview let on.
That reminded me of the interview with BenC in August '16. To me it's quite clear now that for TS the relationship ended when she didn't go back with him to Australia, I always used Martha-whatshername suddenly rolling her eyes at the mention of TH's name, while before she was defending the couple, as proof TS was the one who broke up, but it could just as well prove that TS had already told her friends they didn't need to bother with him anymore.
So what if BenC's interview was the first step in TH watching his back because winter was coming (sorry I couldn't help myself), the first step in starting to take some distance from her, maybe because BC realized what TH couldn't see: that TS was going to blame it all on him? TH recently said that BC was a true friend, “through thick and thin”. (same could be said with Hemsworth and the help with the Australian media)
This led me back to the GQ's profile. It was published on the US edition of the magazine so mostly intended for the US market. I now think that was a preemptive move to limit TS's PR machine? TH is hardly the type to have a twitter quarrel and you got to admit the profile did the job well. All TS could do with her new bf was pretending to be a private person. Ha!
As you can see, it was a sort of domino effect, one thing leading to review another. Like finding out that TS had been following some tumblr blogs of TH's fans before she even met him and she unfollowed them when they started dating. It gives the whole thing this feeling of him having been a mark in a con.
Or a recent interview of Hugh Laurie on the DM (I think), where he says things about TH that he didn't have to say and HL is hardly someone I think can be fooled or wooed. He is a cynic and ironic man who knows the business and actors, he wouldn't say something nice just because it's convenient.
That's the gist of it, of course I'm still in two minds about many other things and in the end, however the circumstances, it was his choice bad as that was. But it was nice to find info allowing me to consider a different point of view.