Game of Thrones bosses: Season 6's female focus has nothing to do with criticism over

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Despite a Game of Thrones director saying that changes were made in response to last year’s controversies, the showrunners insist that is not the case. “The thing that’s slightly frustrating is the idea that we’re responding to criticism from last year, so therefore we’re going to beef up the female roles – that’s blatantly untrue,” says co-creator David Benioff. “What happens this year has been planned for quite some time and is not a response. We can take criticism – and certainly we’ve gotten our share of it – but hearing people look at a middle chapter of a story and make claims about the story as a whole … it’s not in any way a response to online criticism, or any other type of criticism.”