Clara is awful:

I don't necessarily see her as becoming a bad person just more conflicted and trying too hard to live up to the demands of the Doctor and Danny rather than standing on her own. I think we see her believing that she can have both lives in complete balance (she could have both but never in balance) but learns far too late that it may require far more sacrifice than she is ready to give (on a physical and psychological level).

I feel the Eleventh Doctor is partially to blame as he often let her schedule adventures like they were a "hobby" and he often dressed up horrible decisions and events with a manic efficiency. In a way he shielded Clara to the larger dangers and difficult requirements that his life style forces on his companions.

Missy being the woman in the shop is anticlimactic since they introduced us to the mystery and the solution simultaneously:

I also feel it was anticlimactic because there were only two cases when "the woman in the shop" brought Clara and the Doctor together. It would have been better if the Doctor and Clara kept on getting separated from each other and/or deciding to leave each other but something or someone kept forcing them to meet. For example their reason for coming back together after Kill the Moon should have been related to the "woman in the shop".

Either that or they should have made it more clear with the series that Clara was steering the Doctor towards some kind of confrontation (for example more focus on situations like she wanted to see Robin Hood which led him to the robots who were seeking the promised land).

And if they wanted the mystery to be that important and affecting than one of two things should have happened. Either they should have focused on it more with the Doctor searching for who this woman was or what this Promised Land was this whole time. Or there should have been minor evidence that something was going on behind the scenes a la the lead up to Curse of Fenric where certain events or items become more important in retrospect. They tried to go for something in the middle and it was a bit of a misfire in my opinion. Hopefully in the future Big Finish can flesh out the story a bit more.

Danny's story was the highlight of the series:

I think it easily goes either way. Personally I enjoyed his story, but it could have been integrated into the larger narrative a bit better.

'Kill the Moon' and 'In the Forest of the Night' were crap

I think people on this thread already know I enjoyed both of these episodes despite their flaws. And about the whole moon is an egg thing, it is about as silly as the Earth's core being a giant egg (oh wait...)

'Mummy' was the best episode of the series:

Into the Dalek, Time Heist, Listen, Mummy, and Flatline are on my personal tops list for the series and I didn't really dislike any of the episodes.

Capaldi's performances are mixed, feeling rushed at times, he needs to settle into the role and make it his

I don't think its Capaldi's performance that is mixed at all but I can see how it could be perceived that way. It appears that there is mood whiplash with his character between episodes for example between Into the Dalek and Robot of Sherwood. But it is made plenty clear that a lot of time passes between certain episodes for both Clara and the Doctor. We don't know where the Doctor is in his life before certain adventures and cannot really judge where he is mentally. I feel this is most clearly lampshaded in Listen when Clara asks the Doctor how long he has been traveling alone, the obvious time he spends alone in Deep Breath to collect himself and alter the TARDIS, or when he shows up three weeks late to pick up Clara in Into the Dalek when later in the series he is shown to be able to get pretty accurate with his time jumps.

I also feel that Capaldi's Doctor is the first one to really incorporate his past personalities and likes/preferences in a way that hasn't really been done consistently before. The way he refers to River in a more present personal sense rather than a disconnected one in The Caretaker, his quick reference to missing Amy for her long legs in Deep Breath, the Jelly Babies in Mummy, his using of the spoon in the sword fight as well as his Venusian Akido move in Robot, etc. It is largely a credit to his own influence and the work of the writers that Capaldi handles the dichotomy of the Doctor in a way that I find brilliant.

You always get the sense he is still his own Doctor just strongly built upon the foundation of all the others.