Suppose we think he is supposed to be producing a romantic-comedy film for the Dark One's enjoyment, but we think he is failing because of the crummy acting and dialogue (actually, that would be succeeding for a rom-com, but I digress) and cheap budget and obsessing over the sex scene, and then it turns out the Dark One likes it, because unbeknownst to everyone, he really wanted to see a porn flick, and Moridin guessed right when he chose to do that.

The Dark One could be enjoying the blundering around, for all we know. The look on Semirhage's face when Rand weilded the True Power might have been made into his screen saver. Here's another example: Last night I was playing a war game on the computer. I had captured and secured the essential location, built up strong defenses around it, and the only way to access the location for the enemy was to cross a bridge that was destroyed and my guns were preventing the enemy from crossing. In effect, I had the game clinched and all I had to do was let the timer run down. But that got BORING. So I fixed the bridge and let the enemy army come across, so I could watch his men get shot and his tanks blown up by my guns. Yeah, I imagine the scores were lower than they would have been if I had stuck to playing the perfect game. I certainly got more of my men killed and my tanks blown up (but I was playing the Nazi, so screw them anyway) than if I had just hunkered down and waited it out, but I don't play for points, I play to blow up stuff. Watching little tin-hatted Tommies huddling in a fetal position as their Stuart and Cromwell tanks explode in a barrage from my Panthers and 88s is the whole point.

Likewise, the Dark One revels in destruction and chaos and so forth. From OUR point of view it would be nice to have a clean easy win so as to have total control, and then when all enemies are eliminated, you can press the detonator switch and see the world, the Pattern and the Great Serpent go up in a blaze, but that's no fun for him. He doesn't want to perfectly calculate the right quantity of explosives to implode the building with a minimum of fuss, he wants to go in with a sledgehammer and have fun smashing all the glass and knocking holes in the walls.

RJ cited the inspiration of Hitler & friends in his portrayals of the Dark One and the Forsaken. Well, they did a lot of stupid things that cost them the war. Maybe they could have used the resources dedicated to the Holocaust on the war effort. All that rolling stock and manpower could have been usefull at various times on the Ostfront, after all, and then, once they've won, they can dispose of the Jews at leisure. But they had other priorities and acted according to those measures. So to with Moridin and the Dark One