In a DVD audio commentary that he recorded for the episode, Anderson stated that although "Attack on Cloudbase" was intended to be humorous, he believed that the finished episode was more of a "black comedy". He praised the script, noting Blue's feelings for Symphony and his conflict with White as examples of Tony Barwick's "humanisation" of the puppet characters. He also described Captain Magenta's comical commentary on the attack, which ends only with the character's death, as another "wonderful example of 'Barwickism'". Though acknowledging that dream sequences might seem clichéd, he defended the episode's use of a nightmare plot mechanism for its power to frighten, and then re-assure, the audience. He argued that the dark tone is lightened by the closing scene, which he said was written as there had to be "a sequence where everyone was happy together, and clearly no one had come to any grief", thus forming the "inevitable happy ending" to a tragic story.