![]() When Obi-Wan was introduced to Freck, many fans expected him to say the iconic line but instead all he said was "hello". What makes this line even sweeter to finally hear is that there was a perfect opportunity for Obi-Wan to say it in an earlier episode, but he avoided it. As he looks around and faces Grievous, he sarcastically says "hello there", cementing the scene as an eternal meme. If you're unaware of what scene this is referencing, when Obi-Wan Kenobi was tasked with visiting General Grievous in Revenge of the Sith, he jumps down from the rafters in front of him and his troops. It's a nice callback to the prequel trilogy that doesn't feel too forced. As Obi-Wan reaches Luke he looks down at him and says the words Luke, and pretty much everyone over the age of 20, has been waiting to hear - "hello there". John Prine’s legacy casts a very long shadow, and a song such as this refocuses the meaning of life, love, and happiness in a stunning way.In the final few minutes of the series, Obi-Wan is shown walking toward Luke on Tattooine, after previously having been banned from having any contact with him by Owen. “And the lady used to come out at five o’clock every night and go ‘Ru-dee! Ru-dee!’ And I was sitting there writing and suddenly I go, ‘Rudy! Yeah! I got that.’”įrom its organic, open-spaced arrangement to its timely, profound message, “Hello in There” only grows more urgent with every passing year. The name Rudy comes from a time “we used to live in this three-room flat and across the street there was this dog who would never come in and the dog’s name was Rudy,” he explained. “Someday I’ll go and call up Rudy / We worked together at the factory / But what could I say if he asks, ‘What’s new?’ / ‘Nothing, what’s with you? Nothing much to do.’” “And all the news just repeats itself / Like some forgotten dream that we’ve both seen.” “Me and Loretta, we don’t talk much more / She sits and stares through the back door screen,” he sings. ![]() With the second verse, the weight of time grows unbearable. And it’s not so strange that it puts her in a complete time period.” “People go through phases one year where a lot of them will name their kids the same… and I was just thinking that it was very possible that the kind of person I had in mind could be called Loretta. You know, like Loretta in ‘Hello In There.’ I wanted to pick a name that could be an old person’s name, but I didn’t want it to stick out so much,” he said. In an interview with journalist Bruce Pollock, the legendary singer-songwriter dissected some of the song’s details, including using the name Loretta. “I delivered to a Baptist old people’s home where we’d have to go room-to-room,” he said, “and some of the patients would kind of pretend that you were a grandchild or nephew that had come to visit, instead of the guy delivering papers. Written when he was 22, Prine had great affection for the older generation and would help a good friend on their newspaper route. ![]() “That was the beginning thought, then it went to old people.” His talents are best explored with such songs as Hello in There, off his 1971 self-titled debut, a stark examination of age, enduring love, and times. I was thinking about hollering into a hollow log, trying to get through to somebody, ‘’Hello in there,’” Prine stated in the song’s liner notes. With its signature structure – switching between story on the verses to moral on the hook – Prine had been struck by John Lennon’s “Across the Universe,” a song first found on the 1969 compilation No One’s Gonna Change Our World and later on The Beatles’ 1970 album, Let It Be. When clone intelligence reports indicated that General Grievous had fled to Utapau, Obi-Wan took three battalions to the planet. “Ya’ know that old trees just grow stronger / And old rivers grow wilder ev’ry day / Old people just grow lonesome / Waiting for someone to say, ‘Hello in there, hello.’” He goes one step further to analyze the swelling ache that comes with age – feeling invisible to the world. Prine unpacks heavy melancholy as cracked paint flaking from the apartment’s time-worn walls.
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