ok while i am also against scott being a pawn, there's also: "Pawn is often taken to mean 'one who is easily manipulated' or 'one who is sacrificed for a larger purpose'" and i feel like that relates to both 3a and 3b because sacrificial stuff and now nogitsune. and then there is also "the configuration of pawns on the chessboard mostly determines the strategic flavor of a game." and so looking at 3a in particular, his placement in crucial in his piece i think. 3b as well, just not as much.
i think in season 3a, the props people just stuck a whole bunch of post-its on whatever piece. and then in 3b jeff remembered chess would be a cool analogy for his plot and the prop people took out the same board but then the post its fell off and they re-stuck them anywhere they wanted. so it is all meaningless, aside from the chess board being referenced.
so none of the pieces have intrinsic value aside from "chess" being an analogy for the really poorly plotted story arc this season
it could have easily been a game of sorry or trouble. as long as a board was there so there is no crucial meaning to derek being the king. or scott being the pawn. or anything. at all. zero meaning. because jeff davis is a lazy writer. and a chess analogy sounds witty and cool. just like flashbacks to an internment camp weren't necessary. neither were the flashbacks to derek's time in high school. it was all really unnecessary considering the plot really had zero to do with that aside from flashbacks sound cool and it wasted an episode
