My view:
Well, thank you Skydiver, you took the words right out of my mouth. Sure, I'm looking at the guy from an early series 2 portrayal, but that guy a pasifist? no way. You just look at his attitude in episodes, even early ones like 'Fire and Water', and especially 'The Gamekeeper', and you see what Daniel's like when he gets mad. H eonly looks like a pasicfist when you consider he's with an experineced colonel, captain and Jaffa warrior, but he can, and does hold his own. True, I do prefer it when he's playing the geek, at least he's not as scary as he is in 'Need' (Sorry, but I could hardly watch that episode). So he sheds the geeky image? that should be interesting.
Sorry for this long post, it's just stuff I've written in my episode reviews.