(wistfully) I haven't had one in ages, because they take so long to pick apart right.

Some methods for getting the seeds out with minimum mess

I've also seen the TV chefs drag the edge of a spoon across the cut surface of a pom and gently scrape the seeds out

Pfft, broken seeds that way.

[checks the method] You don't need any water to do that, silly people. My mother used to make us pomegranate+red Jell-O. AWESOME.

It's still time-consuming, that's the problem.

Not you-silly, the people dunking the pomegranates in water. I guess they're trying to soak away the juice from the cut seeds?

(Arils, whatever.)

The fanning method kind of intrigued me, though.