Talk:Arkangel (Black Mirror)

Plot: Unprotected sex
Until someone can provide proof here that Sara was having unprotected sex, I'm going to delete the word "unprotected" in the Plot section. I know her mother believes that to be the case, as evidenced by her sneaking EC medication into Sara's smoothie, but there was no indication that I could see in the brief sex scene that it was unprotected sex. --Spiff666 (talk) 13:07, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * You are right to remove it as it is not clearly shown. It can be reasonable assumed that the ArcAngel system - which is wired to monitor all of Sara's body conditions, recognized that she got pregnant before Sara would know, let her mother know, and thus leading her to get the EC. But this is not shown exactly nor spelled out verbally, only that we know she saw them have sex, then later, prompted by something from ArkAngel, got the EC. It's synth to go beyond that. --M asem (t) 14:55, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Agreed – the plot summary should avoid the question just as the episode does. — Bilorv(c)(talk) 18:12, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Captain Obvious to the rescue!
>One critic compares "Arkangel" to previous Black Mirror episodes "The Entire History of You" and "Be Right Back", as each episode is based on an existing technology, and plausibly demonstrates how the technology could go wrong in the future.[4]

Uh.... does this not describe... nearly every episode of the show (not quite all, but very close to all). I wouldn’t mind, only this is the ONLY THNG in the ‘analysis’ section. --StrexcorpEmployee (talk) 10:18, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I think I probably wrote this line the day after the episode came out, intending to expand the section further and never getting around to it in the wave of things to do with the fourth series' release. Indeed it is a bit uninformative. "Arkangel" is quite low on my list at the moment of Black Mirror episodes to overhaul, but anyone is welcome to improve it. You could read the original review and rewrite the sentence to make a closer link with TEHOY and BRB that wouldn't apply to other episodes, or add analytic commentary from other critical reviews. — Bilorv ( talk ) 15:49, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

No abortion
"One scene incorrectly portrays an emergency contraception (EC) pill as causing abortion rather than preventing pregnancy." It only shows vomiting, nothing about abortion. I'll remove this sentence. Sawtoothcoriander (talk) 23:30, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi, and thanks for explaining your edit here. The lead of an article is just meant to summarise the body, so before removing the content you should check if it's expanded upon in the body (it should be). Under the Analysis section, the last paragraph reads:
 * The reproductive healthcare organisation Planned Parenthood criticised the depiction of emergency contraceptive (EC) pills as inaccurate. A nurse tells Sara that the purpose of such a pill is "terminating your pregnancy", but this is a description of abortion rather than contraception. Contraception prevents the fertilisation of an egg before a person becomes pregnant.


 * So the issue is with the nurse's dialogue, rather than the vomiting scene. To clarify (feel free to improve if you can), I've rephrased the sentence in the lead as: In one scene, a nurse incorrectly implies that an emergency contraception (EC) pill induces abortion, rather than preventing pregnancy. Thanks for raising this point! — Bilorv ( talk ) 00:50, 12 December 2021 (UTC)