I'm not surprised how many people are underwhelmed with English Advanced. There are a couple of good points (eg. at long last, good movies!), but a lot of the time it's repetitive, restrictive and manages to be tedious, for all the related texts we're allowed to choose.
I wouldn't do it if it wasn't compulsory, and I wouldn't do English Extension 1 if I didn't need it for English Extension 2 either. It's quite funny/sad. I hated 2 Unit Maths a whole lot more though, and I was absolutely appalling at it (Yearly Mark: 30%)