 He particularly praised the quieter moments between the characters, and listed "the story feeling a little compressed" as his main qualm.Emily VanDerWerff of the site listed "Prophecy Girl" as one of the "10 episodes that show how "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" blew up genre TV", writing that it gave "a sense of the series at its early best".DVD Talk's Phillip Duncan described the episode as "a neat and tidy close without much fanfare" and felt that there was "too much crammed into this episode as several plot-points are struggled to be resolved".