Why the Wild West?

Why not the wild west... The theme park (if we can call it that) are based in America so it makes sense to go back to the early days of american history... Star Wars would be way to difficult to do. You want people flying around in spaceships? The 50s would be to boring and Medieval times are more for the Europeans;-) But weren't they building some ninja warriors? So who knows if they decide to change the setting at some point...

And by the way it is based on a book/movie which takes place in the wild west.

The original had a Medieval and a Roman world as well as West, but I think for the series to focus on just one area was a better choice. Considering the source material's name recognition, it doesn't make sense to do anything but the old west.

I'm guessing their budget was used up on the west setting. In the original movie there where 3 other them parks one of which was midevil the other being a roman empire park. The violence in the film originated in the west world and spilled over into the other parks. We don't hear anything about other parks in this show so it would be akward if they try to interduce them in the next seasons.

they nod to the existence of the other parks, but dont spend a bajillion dollars rendering them, because they would add little to the plot, which is at bottom, existential.

i can understand, though, that it would be cool to see the story weaved thru the alternate settings. bonanza (probably way before your time, but a huge hit in its time) had the characters wearing the same cloths every week, and constantly re-used stock footage to keep production costs in line with a budget.