So this guy on YouTube called Rob Ager who mostly does film analysis made some videos a while back where he talks about plot holes, or more specifically artistic license, in ANH.
With the recent release of TFA the subject of plot holes and artistic license have been thrown about quite a lot regarding all seven SW films. A lot people have even started tearing the old films apart in defense of the logical inconsistencies of the new, and I was suddenly reminded of these two videos.

Now I’d like to point out that I’m not trying to make any big claims about the PT or TFA here, I actually want to start a new type of discussion here (TFA discussions can remain in the TFA threads), but I’d really like to hear what you guys think about this guy’s observations.

His argument here is pretty much, as I’ve stated in the title of this thread, that ANH makes little to no sense logically, but that this is actually what makes it such a good film. The film isn’t logically driven, but emotionally driven, and therefore it’s successful in cinematic terms.

Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9KKnCYrihs

Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnSXJLbuaco

(PS, this guy isn’t as into SW as most people are here so he does make a few assumptions and mistakes that many of us may take for granted. It doesn’t hurt his overall arguments though, just though I’d mention it.)

If you’re not too interested in his “rant” about what doesn’t work ‘logically,’ just skip ahead to ca. 9:50 on the second video to hear his conclusion on why ANH is actually a good film ‘cinematically’.