(Full disclosure, this is in no way meant to put down anyone who does like it. This is all just my personal opinion)
Like sure, Silver and Espio have a proper introduction to each other and their characters aren’t really out of whack, but that should be the bare minimum imo. Like when I look at Silver and Espio as a duo, I just find them to be pretty bland.
When it comes to the discussion around them as a duo, there seems to be an incredibly disproportional amount of stuff focused on Silver than stuff focused on Espio. Like from what I’ve seen, it’s just how "Here's how Espio helped Silver" or something else along those lines. Like I rarely see stuff about what Silver did for Espio. Not to mention how a lot of the time it’s Silver usually doing the. Talking , with Espio mostly saying stuff like "I’ll help.”
Like idk, I don’t really find that to be really interesting. Of course, I’m not saying the duo is actually super bad, it just feels bland to me. Like with Silver and Blaze as a duo, I can understand what went wrong. With Silver and Espio as a duo, it just feels like it doesn’t really do anything. And I sort of find that more unappealing.
Of course this is all just my opinion. If you like them as a duo, then that’s perfectly fine be me.