Jeremy Podeswa, who directed Season 5's controversial episode "Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken" and the first two episodes of the upcoming sixth season, said at a press conference that the show's creators have adapted their approach after the widespread negative response to Sansa Stark's (Sophie Turner) rape scene in the aforementioned episode.

According to Podeswa, Thrones creators Dan Weiss and David Benioff "were responsive to the discussion and there were a couple of things that changed as a result," Forbes reports. "It is important that (the producers) not self-censor. The show depicts a brutal world where horrible things happen. They did not want to be too overly influenced by that (criticism) but they did absorb and take it in and it did influence them in a way."

He was not specific about what those changes entail.

《权力的游戏》第五季第六集中，桑莎·史塔克（Sansa Stark）被丈夫拉姆斯·波顿（Ramsay Bolton）强暴的情节在播出后引起了观众的极度不满，而第六季也会在这方面做很大的改动，以此回应剧中众多的性侵戏份。

《权力的游戏》导演杰瑞米·波多斯瓦（Jeremy Podeswa）在一次活动中声明，制片人D·B·韦斯（D.B. Weiss）和大卫·贝尼奥夫（David Benioff）正准备二者发生争执的情节。波多斯瓦称，他们听取了批评意见，会在下一季拍摄争执情节。

波多斯瓦说：“他们不想过多地受外界影响，但他们的确愿意吸收并采纳意见。而大家的心声确实以某种方式影响着他们。”

在波多斯瓦看来，他认为这场戏体现了“骇人之事不断发生的残忍世界”。 他说：“我们知道这对观众来说是个挑战。公平地说，剧评是对电视剧的看法，而不能决定剧情的走向。经过一系列精心处理，你几乎看不出来这场戏是有意为之。”

虽然《权力的游戏》对“性”毫不避讳，全季展示了不少性侵戏；但该剧仍或多或少偏离了原著。书中，嫁给拉姆斯的是剧中未提及的珍妮·普尔（Jeyne Poole），而不是桑莎。 波多斯瓦也没有明确表示第六季中桑莎和拉姆斯的关系，但他称贝尼奥夫和韦斯曾对此详细讨论过，结果他们做了几处改动。
要想看到电视剧做出了哪些改动，粉丝们得要等到2016年4月《权力的游戏》第六季开播后了。