(x-posting, mostly)
I wouldn’t have stopped if I was Rob or Amber. (Which would be odd, but go with me here.)
My thinking is if there’s another team there to get help if needed (which there was) and no one’s in a huge panic (the teams were standing around waiting by the time Rob and Amber rolled past), there’s nothing you can really add by stopping. If they needed you then, they’d let you know.
I think the best solution was to slow down, roll down the window, and ask, which the other teams did.
(I also think he didn’t think about stopping because the gay guys were there, and they didn’t want anything to do with them.)
I’m sure I’m liking Rob and Amber more than I should as a reaction to other people equally irrationally hating them, but I still think they were okay here. Far from perfect, but not outright horrible.
I think what’s more important (yet will get lost in the mix) is a Fun Team beat out a Not Fun Team at the end. That’s gone the wrong way many times. Much of the show is dependent on how fun/entertaining the people who are left are; it’s easier to love when you don’t have to put up with couples who clearly need not to ever talk to each other again.
Add in the dramatics of how the Fun Team lost the time, and then caught all the way up, and it was an awesome finish. Pretty good show, made possible by combining the non-elimination into a two hour show.
The new “we take everything” policy for lasts on a non-elimination is neat, but kinda annoying how it was logistically irrelevant – outside the airport, there was no place they could’ve spent the money they lost, and it wasn’t neccesary there.