Not in the hands of a gifted editor...it wouldn't. I still love the way a new hope opens the droids, the ship the shooting, vader's entrance...cut to Luke looking with his binoculars up at the sky thinking something's going on...cut to the R2 and leia and her getting stunned, cut to luke heading into the bar to grab biggs and the girl to look at the sky with the binoculars and see there's a battle going on, they dismiss him saying its nothing. Right after that and clearly not before or during the looking through the binoculars the droids launch free of the ship towards tatooine. Now Biggs has the conversation with Luke about joining the rebellion and him having to leave. The droids land on the planet and then as I said those situations have more gravity with the friendship established and Luke's desire to join the rebellion is more fervent, Luke going out that night with Biggs on his last night and missing it seems more weighty and of course ultimately losing biggs now matters.