Sherlock is not entirely out of the mess. Why?

BBC's Sherlock returns in a few months and the climax of the second series is still baffling. I read quite a few theories and as a typical Holmes fan I too was forced to research it. Now why was he not dead after jumping off the building? This is quite unlike the actual Reichenbach where he hung on to the cliff. This is a clear cut jump from the roof of a tall building.There are some interesting versions floating around the internet.

• Holmes jumps on to a truck filled with rubbish baggage (which blocks the view of Watson and the Sniper) and then plays dead on the pavement. 
  
  Seems close enough. Though I wonder how he could fool a sniper up above the building unless the Sniper was marking Watson all the time and was not at all watching Holmes. 

• The cyclist who knocked down Watson dosed him with the fear gas (from Hounds of Baskerville) and Watson imagined the whole thing. Molly and Mycroft helped Holmes with a fake dead body and a fake report and the rest is history.
  
  The cyclist drugging Watson would be a stretch. At best he was a distraction. Holmes had to fool all the people around him, not just Watson. A whole lot if them could be part of the homeless network but not all, could they? We have a pretty famous dead body on the pavement, don't we?

Then some of it goes beyond all stretches of imagination.

• Holmes pulls out "a mask of himself" which was with Moriarty at that time - the one which Moriarty used to scare the children and puts the mask on to Moriarty's body and pushes the dead body of the building.
  
  

LOL I won't be watching the series further if the latter is the case. It'll be a disgrace to the detective. Now I am more interested about where the story is heading than the actual fall. To know where the story is heading, we need to ask more questions.

First of all, was Holmes expecting himself to jump off that building at any stage?

I'd say Yes. Moriarty's plan was to expose Holmes as a Fraud. That final piece of the fairy tale, as Moriarty would want it, will be for Holmes, the fake detective, to commit suicide. Holmes must've deduced that part and so I'd think he was manipulating Moriarty and was prepared for a jump (be it with the snipers watching or without them).

Make the jump without serious injuries, play dead, and buy some time to expose Moriarty would've been the plan. Afterall he knew the building (he chose the spot), so he must've known how to jump without ending up dead. The truck along with the street urchins must've played their part for the fake blood and all.

But then did he expect Moriarty to shoot himself?

Probably No, because that seemed more or less impromptu. Actually to me, that killed the whole idea of Moriarty being an equal to Holmes. The whole point of Conan Doyle's Reichenbach was to end them both as equals.

Anyway within the series, I liked the idea of Moriarty killing himself but that opened up a new puzzle which was never there in the Final Problem. Didn't get me? We have a dead body of an innocent actor (Richard Brook) on top of that building now! How are they going to clean up that mess?

So IF the makers have intentionally twisted the plot this way, then that brings me to the third and the most important question.

After Moriarty's death Holmes could have simply jumped off the building and rescued his friends from the snipers. Why on earth did he make a confession to Watson on air (via his cellphone) that he was a fraud? 

It meant that he was playing straight into Moriarty's hands for some reason. It could mean that the death of Richard Brook will be investigated. They'll find out that he shot himself (using his own gun with his left hand). Would that be enough to bail out Holmes from the mess? But that doesn't prove anything, does it?

Alas! only if we had a solid evidence. Some recording. Some sort of tiny camera that could capture the whole event. Now wait a minute. This isn't the 19th century version. I do recall them showing precisely a wireless camera like that in that episode. That would've come in handy for sure.

Now the question is would the modern day Holmes use something as simple as that to expose the sharpest criminal of all time? Will it give him professional satisfaction? I don't think so. Come this December and we'll have answers to all these questions. I hope those are satisfactory answers. Until then we can keep guessing. After all, if we are expected to find out a proper solution for this, then that too will be a disgrace to the sharpest mind of all time, won't it?