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The Seagull of Doubt
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My favorite's the method from Scud: they airlock the werewolf into space, where he's continually pulled apart by the vacuum and then miraculously regenerates over and over throughout eternity. It's hardcore.

I saw that one, too, and it was so bad it actually made me mad.  All I wanted was the reliable mediocrity of "Bones", and I'm subjected to this truly awful garbage.  Then I realized "Bones" was affecting me emotionally, and that's when I had to give myself a good long look in the mirror.

I've been trying to figure out how Farscape made it work.  Aeryn and John kept the dance up for much longer than I usually have patience for, and while of course they were always going to get together the obstacles were organic/legit enough to not be annoying.  Plus there were always things exploding and people dying

Absolutely this.  I missed it during the one week it played at only one theater in my area (the next closest theater showing it being hundreds of miles away).  Just give it a damn wide release.

Well, he won that fight with Alaric pretty quick

Yeah, about that… is this whole a show a dig at Dan Harmon for ragging on Glee so hard? That might explain some things about it, is all.

I haven't heard it, but I really hope that "The Circle Married the Line" is a song about Norton Juster's "The Dot and the Line".  That would be… that would just be great.

Thanks, Bookbinder, and I agree with you about how the deconstruction works.

Going off memory, but:
Miller wrote and drew some really amazing things in the 80s and 90s. His stories were brutal, with an emotional and intellectual depth that were considered revolutionary. Along with Alan Moore, he popularized the "grim and gritty" style that dominated the 80s - a tag that doesn't really